Legal Question: Rights To Incorporate Content In PHP Function Definition Comments?
| From: | David Weekly | Date: | Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:44:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Legal Question: Rights To Incorporate Content In PHP Function Definition Comments? | ||
| Groups: | php.mirrors | ||
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Hi! My name is David Weekly. I run PBwiki, the world's biggest wiki
farm, which is proudly entirely powered by PHP. We'd like to
understand the legal ramifications of incorporating into our source
base functions posted by users as comments on PHP function definitions
in your online manual.
Your add-note.php notice says "This means that any note submitted here
becomes the property of the PHP Documentation Group." but it's not
clear how one obtains permission from the PHP Documentation Group to
make use of the code in the notes.
What would be extraordinarily helpful to myself (and likely many
others) is a quick note on the website (or written back to me in an
email) that says: "The PHP Documentation Group openly licenses the
content of the notes posted under the same license as PHP" or even
"The PHP Documentation Group releases all content of notes posted into
the Public Domain".
While I understand it's of no particular concern to yourself, we're
completing an IP review here in the next day or two, so if you did
manage to attend to this quickly, it'd be a huge help. We love PHP!!
Thanks For The Awesome Environment,
David Weekly
CEO of PBwiki