[PHP-DOC] PHP documentation authors / editors and license

[Gabor Hojtsy]

Hi!

I have just read the interview with Rasmus at ZDNet Australia. One question hit my mind:

Q: How do you rate Open Source Documentation?

A: ...We’ve done pretty well at PHP. We treat documentation folks just like developers, they have just as high a profile. Somehow we have attracted a lot of people who are interested in documentation.

Well, to maintain doc folks with as high profile as developers, it would be nice to at listen to our voice, which we try to speak out since our meeting last year March. We have talked about many things regarding our documentation, and finally got to the point that:

- the documentation license needs to be changed
- more and/or other authors and editors need to be listed, and a few
of them need to be selected to deal with copyright issues, and such

As the current legal thing goes, we need permission from the authors to change the license, and to add new authors.

_None_ of the authors or editors listed on the manual fontpage (the legal copyright holders) contribute to the manual actively these days.

I have summarized the problem quite a few times, and sent out the letter to all authors, but have received _no_ answer from any of them.
Here is my last summary:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=phpdoc&m=103071476614354&w=2

The license change to the proposed license will also have the positive side effect, that our license would be compatible with the PHP Function Reference created by Zak and others, so it's contents will be opened up for inclusion in the manual (as said by Zak ;).

Please be so kind, and provide some tips on how to get some answes from those authors and editors listed, as they don't seem to even read the mails we sent out through the months.

To keep those guys at the documentation team, it would be nice to give them the recognition as manual authors and/or editors as appropriate. There are many guys, who deserve this, including but not limited to Hartmut, Friedhelm and Philip.

Goba



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