Hello Wez-
The PHP manual does not insert author and company names like this and
I encouraged Gwynne to remove these attributions. We're researching a
method for crediting "sponsored" documentation but they should not be
treated in a special manner... all contributors and contributions
should be treated the same. In fact, the entire credits system (a
topic that is just about impossible to maintain) is being reevaluated
at this time.
The text did say we can "edit, combine, transform, rewrite, etc. as
suits the needs of the community" and the community does not write
credits like that nor does a commit imply that credits will be added
outside the CVS changelog. I am not prepared to discuss the credit
system as a whole but in time it will happen. If you/they require
that information to remain as is then I'd rather remove the docs and
move on but I doubt it will come to that. The work is appreciated but
we must remain fair and consistent and encourage everyone to feel
free to edit any and all documentation in the manual and never worry
about when or when not to add a persons name.
Regards,
Philip
On Jun 6, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Wez Furlong wrote:
Please put the attribution back, as a matter of courtesy to those
authors efforts as they kindly donated those docs and don't otherwise
have any way of being credited for their work.
--Wez.
PS: As a general rule of thumb, never remove any attribution,
license or
copyright information from a file unless you are 100% certain that
it no
longer applies.
Buesching, Logan J wrote:
I thought all the docs we have and create were under an open license?
________________________________
From: Nuno Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 6/6/2007 8:32 AM
To: Gwynne Amaya Raskind
Cc: PHPdoc; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/internals/pdo building.xml
error-handling.xml implementing.xml index.xml intro.xml pdo-dbh-
t.xml pdo-stmt-t.xml preparation.xml prerequisites.xml
gwynne Wed Jun 6 05:20:48 2007 UTC
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/internals/pdo building.xml error-handling.xml
implementing.xml index.xml intro.xml
pdo-dbh-t.xml pdo-stmt-t.xml
preparation.xml prerequisites.xml
Log:
- Fixed several spelling and grammatical errors in the PDO
documentation.
- Removed displayed author information from the PDO
documentation front
page.
I don't know if that is legal. You need to check out what was the
agreement
with IBM for distribution of those docs. Maybe Wez can help on
this subject?
Nuno
