On Jan 5, 2009, at 14:49, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
A project of the Web Application Security Consortium is to try to
classify
and define security threats. For one of the definitions, we would
like to
possibly quote relevant parts of the PHP manual, but the license is
a little
unclear. I'm hoping someone can help clarify.
At the bottom of each page, there is a copyright notice:
Copyright (c) 2001-2009 The PHP Group
All rights reserved.
Clicking on the copyright notice in the footer should make it obvious
what that statements covers.
"The code, text, PHP logo, and graphical elements on this website and
the mirror websites (the "Site") are Copyright © 2001-2009 The PHP
Group. All rights reserved. "
The manual is text, so I think this statement is part of the concern,
not part of the clarification.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ click on the "copyright" link (right
below the author list), or do like Brandon did, download the manual
(http://php.net/download-docs).
All ideas to make these sort of issues more obvious are welcomed.
The intent is clear, and thanks for the reassurance. I'm not sure
intent matters in legal affairs, and the lack of precision is still
likely to concern some people, but I'll pass this information along
and let someone else worry about it. :-)
I'm not a lawyer, else I would happily offer advice about how to make
these statements more precise. I do not think something can be
copyrighted by multiple entities, so that is probably the primary
issue. (Perhaps a related issue is whether the PHP Documentation Group
is a legal entity. IBM had paperwork for PDO that said that the PHP
Group was effectively a common law entity, but I'm not sure the same
has been or even can be done for the PHP Documentation Group.) A
single copyright holder can distribute something under multiple
licenses, so I don't think the "all rights reserved" and CC license
conflict. Again, this isn't my area of expertise; I'm just trying to
act as a responsible conduit.
Thanks again,
Chris
