On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
...
> 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 ;).
Yep. My new editor at Sams has agreed to allow me to integrate my
material from the PHP Functions Essential Reference into the PHP
documentation. This should mean that when we work on the second
edition, we can do a full review of the major extensions of the
manual.
> 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.
It seems that we only need to be concerned about:
- Jouni Ahto
- Alexander Aulbach
I don't know either Jouni or Alexander. Anyone here keep in touch
with them?
- Egon Schmid
Egon has been ill lately. Perhaps Georg, Hartmut or Conni can talk
to him about this?
- Lars Torben Wilson
I bet that Torben is working hard with his band. He was doing a lot
of touring the last time that I talked to him. But... he did support
this. I can give him a call and see if he still feels this way.
All the rest (Andrei, Jim, Stig and Rasmus) are active and AFAIK
support this.
Hrm. Maybe we could use the work in the PHP Function Essential
Reference as the starting point for a new set of docs? At the publish
date, it covered a large portion of PHP.
This would avoid the licensing issues. People who have already
contributed to the documentation could take their specific sections
and recommit them to the new docs - even though they contributed to a
GPL-licensed work, they still own copyright on their own work.
> 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.
Agreed!
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