For what I can gather from the Open Publication License (http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/) that the PHP manual uses (http://www.php.net/manual/en/copyright.php), and in view that the license uses options A and B, then unless the PHP Documentation Group gives its OK, then:
"... Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. ..." See the Open Publication license for details on what a 'substantive modification' means in the context of the license. Also from that document: "... Any publication in standard (paper) book form shall require the citation of the original publisher and author. The publisher and author's names shall appear on all outer surfaces of the book. On all outer surfaces of the book the original publisher's name shall be as large as the title of the work and cited as possessive with respect to the title. ..." Bottomline, unles the Documentation group gives an official OK, using the information without permission is a violation of the license and infringement of copyright (take this as my own understanding, as I am not a lawyer). Also, this license is more lenient than the Gnu FDL we were also contemplating using, because it does not force derivative works to also use FDL. In the Open Publication License, it is up to the author of the derivative work as to whether publish his/her work under that license (or one less restrictive). Hope this helps some. --- Friedhelm Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 19:51, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > > Everyone of you can commercialize the > PHP-knowledge he/she gained > > > directly or indirectly through this "global > public domain project". > > > Either you earn money with php-programming, or > you earn money with > > > teaching, training and consulting. Or you earn > money with books and > > > articles. > > > Whichever way you chose, you always contribute > to the globalization of > > > PHP. > > > > That is not to forget that programming, teaching, > training, consulting > > is all creating something new. Copying a part of > the manual, adding some > > own content and selling it under your name on the > cover is not comparable. > > > > BTW I don't understand German, so I cannot comment > on what was written > > in there... > > > Here the translated (through > http://babelfish.altavista.com), so blame them;-) > mail from Andreas: > <qoute> > Hello Friedhelm, > I would like to turn once personally to you > concerning the > German-language reference list into my book, of > which I intend to publish too. > I would like to say to them that it is natural for > me, to take up first with > that or the authors connection whose documents I > would like to use, for the > simple reason, because I respect the work of others, > even if it concerns > open SOURCE of projects. I am larger trailer of PHP, > your thing and your > Community. I already near-close to hundred from > interested one handling with > PHP, and many of you today successfully use it. Thus > you see, I work hard for > the spreading of this script language. In my case it > does not go printing > therefore that I would like myself to decorate with > strange feather/spring, > thus simply your work would like, on the contrary it > goes down-attributing > therefore my experiences with PHP and PHP listing of > me to me in a book. > To the topics which I treated, would like I a > complete reference list > along-publish, which is adapted according to the > book then. I am to be > cooperated likewise ready in your documentation, > even ready, the reference > about which I above stated, and which I publish in > my book (adapted), > you to make available. I would be very connected for > you, if you could agree > the suggestion. > </qoute> > > Friedhelm > > -- > PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
