I do provide some of my work under the a Creative Comons license, so I
know it quite well. One of the reasons to move to OPL was to be
compatible with the PHPFER[3] and Zend API doc licenses (which are both
OPL), so we can integare the stuff legally.
[3] http://fooassociates.com/phpfer/
Goba
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Joe Orton wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:35:29AM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> > > >Hi folks - I noticed that the new PHP documentation licence elects to
> > > >use this option of the OPL:
> > > >
> > >
Derick Rethans wrote:
> Also, the documentation was former under GPL which was and i a totally
> WRONG licence for documentation.
Did someone take a look at the Creative Commons [1] licenses?
IANAL, but I think the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license
would probably fit our needs.
(Note: someone responded to me directly on this
thread, and I deleted the msg. Whoever did, please do
respond to all the list.)
Just in case you had not read it, see:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
a good position piece by RMS titled "Free Software and
Free Manuals".
Also look at:
Why are we on this list??? How do we take this address off??
-Original Message-
From: Jesus M. Castagnetto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:44 PM
To: Joe Orton
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] PHP documentation licence
The
The principles may apply, but the licenses can be and
are different.
The reason for that particular clauses there is
because there have been several instances where people
have basically published the manual contents in book
form, removing the copyright and the information about
the original autho
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:35:29AM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> > >Hi folks - I noticed that the new PHP documentation licence elects to
> > >use this option of the OPL:
> > >
> > >Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document
> > >
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:35:29AM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> >Hi folks - I noticed that the new PHP documentation licence elects to
> >use this option of the OPL:
> >
> >Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document
> >is prohibited without the explicit permission of t
Hi folks - I noticed that the new PHP documentation licence elects to
use this option of the OPL:
Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document
is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright
holder.
This is a significant restriction over the previous l
