Re: what licence for documentation ?

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 05:49, E.D. wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know which licence has the documentation. > PHP licence ? free licence ? public domain ? other ? > > In other words, I want to include some parts in a commercial product, > can I ? > > Please answer only if you *know*, I can't go with suppositions. > > -- > E.D. Ask for permission on the phpdoc mailing list, since that's where the people who know are. This is actually a big topic for discussion right now, since there are few people who would like to put the manual into commercial products. Also, simply searching the PHP site for the license will give results very quickly, and it's linked to from the front manual page. Here's the text of the copyright (note that this is NOT the whole of the license: ________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright Copyright © 1997 - 2003 by the PHP Documentation Group. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. The members of the PHP Documentation Group are listed on the front page of this manual. In case you would like to contact the group, please write to phpdoc@lists.php.net. The 'Extending PHP 4.0' section of this manual is copyright © 2000 by Zend Technologies, Ltd. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps, Torben -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> +1.604.709.0506 http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.inflatableeye.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.themainonmain.com -----==== Boycott Starbucks! http://www.haidabuckscafe.com ====-----