Re: Question on license of php manual

Jochen Metzger wrote:

Well actually the original paragraph in english is: Any publication in standard (paper) book form shall require the citation of the original publisher and author I am not sure what this exactly means. Actually IMHO this means that, you are allowed to make copies of pages of it as long it is not published as a "standard book" or "standard paperbook". So you are allowed to copy single pages with a copymachine and use them for e.g. training. Did I get that alright, or am I misunderstanding the license wrong.

Copying/Printing parts of the manual and distributing them as training material should be ok with all of us and even with the license. Add a notice like "This material is taken from the PHP manual available on <URL> and is (c) by the PHP Documentation Group" should completely put you on the safe side (even handing out a complete printout of the manual to your students should be ok this way, it's only about 4000+ pages right now ;) What the license trys to prevent is just that some publisher publishes the document as a regular book without prior permission (IMHO) Disclaimer: i'm an engineer, not a lawyer, so please don't take my

            personal opinions as legel advice ;)

-- Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net>