Re: finally: new authors

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 07:35, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > >>>>Bad form, this exposes the docs to copyright lawsuits. :-( > >>> > >>>Just FYI, on the 'About Notes' page, available to all submitters of > >>>notes, it's explained that their note will go under the same license as > >>>the documentation proper. > >> > >>Well, it depends on the interpreation whether this is good or bad. You > >>can interpret it this way: > >> > >> - Ah, my note can only be reused if my name is printed along it, > >> as this is what the Open Publication License says > >> > >>So the text on the about notes page can be interpreted more then one > >>way. It should clearly state that the user who adds the note gives any > >>right regarding his note to the PHP Documentation Group. > > > > We haven't had any problems with this so far, but we should probably add > > a little note. Should I go ahead and do that? > > IMHO the whole about notes page should be integrated to the add-note.php > page. As the about-notes page is very small, and nearly all the content > is important for the submitters, I think that would be ok to go to the > add-note page. > > Goba OK, I'll work on it. -- Andrew Lindeman <alindeman@php.net>