Re: the PHP Documentation License

> read the archives, and no Egon, i don't want to hear from your lawyers. *g* > - a small number of people have "acclaim" for the documentation. And > whatever anyone might say, it's not edited by Stig and Egon, but by many Yes. At http://www.php.net/manual/en/copyright.php it says "This manual is Copyright [...] by the PHP Documentation Group. The members of this group are listed on the front page of this manual." Does this mean, only _these_ are members of the doc team? I don't have a big problem with this sentence concerning my person, since I did not _that_ much, other people did. But there are some people who definately deserve it, to be on the front page. I dont want to annoy Egon, but, shouldn't there be at least a sentence like "...and numerous other helpers"? > more people. People like Harmut should be on the front page of the manual, > and he's not - and that's a bad thing. ACK. > - a small number of people religiously hold control over the Documentation. > This is bad, and does not help or encourage new people to take part. ACK. > - If i want/see a need to make a change to the front page, i shouldn't > expect to be shouted at (unless i had broken it, etc). See my try ;) > As far as the actual license goes, GPL is probably not where we want to be - > it's something i personally shy away from due to it's restrictiveness. There > are many other open source documentation licenses, and we should probably be > looking at them. Yes. I dont know that much about those differences, but GPL is definately not what we (read: I) want. > Finally, yes i am aware that this is also due to be discussed at the meeting > in march, however i feel it's of importance (given zendapi's introduction to > PHP cvs) to start discussion now - and at least have some idea of current > general thoughts. I think this was right, to start a discussion which maybe ends in march ;) Mark -- German Gabber Network @ http://www.gabber.de Infos und Tips zu PHP http://www.php-homepage.de