Re: License change? Bye bye OPL, hello CC?
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:08:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: License change? Bye bye OPL, hello CC? | ||
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 23:58, Lars Strojny <lars@strojny.net> wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 21:04 +0200 schrieb Hannes Magnusson:
> [...]
>> Does anyone have any objection to changing the license of the PHP
>> documentation to Creative Commons Attribution (by)[1]?
>
> What about by-nc-sa? Would prohibit commercial use, which I consider a
> good thing for the documentation (so not to print it as an appendix in
> $var book) and would make sure that derived works are published under
> the same license.
God no. I hate viruses. And there is a reason why the PHP license is
flexible, we should stay on the same path.
I take it as a compliment if people want to throw our docs into books
as appendixes or bundle it with their enterprise IDE.
-Hannes