Re: PHP documentation licence

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 > > > is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright > > > holder. > > > > > >This is a significant restriction over the previous licence, and is not > > >in the spirit (if not the letter) of the Open Source Definition/Debian > > >Free Software Guidelines: that modification is unrestricted is an > > >important part of free software. > > > > > >Would you consider removing this option? > > > > Is the documentation software? > > Obviously not, though I find it hard to convince myself that the > principles of free software should not also apply to free > documentation--hence the question. The idea why this is in is that we don't want other people making money of our work, without having to contribute their updates/changes back to the project. I don't see anything wrong with this statement. Also, the documentation was former under GPL which was and is a totally WRONG licence for documentation. Derick -- "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those that read the future by examining animal entrails." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------