Re: PHP website - OS Convention - ThoutReader

Hi Mark,

We believe the PHP documentation is covered under your GPL but we just wanted to make sure it was ok to deliver it, unaltered, in the ThoutTReader format.

No it is not under the GPL. Since you say you have processed the PHP manual, you probably already processed the copyright part. See: http://php.net/manual/en/copyright.php

We have already converted PHP 4.0 into the ThoutTReader format and it is ready to load. We have written scripts that will convert PHP 5.0 into the ThoutTReader format in a matter of minutes once the documentation is released. The same holds true for any other documentation you wish to convert.

I expect you to refer to the PHP 4.0 and PHP 5.0 documentation respectively above. First, currently we have 4.x versions, not only 4.0. Second our current manual contains information for PHP 3.0.x, PHP 4.x.x, and PHP 5.0.0 (currently the CVS version) as well. We do refer to specific versions, including 5.0.0. We do not yet have a complete documentation on new features in PHP 5, and we will probably not have that when PHP 5.0.0 (the software) is released. The situation was similar before. Some part of the documentation are way ahead of time, documenting PHP 5 features for some time now, and some parts are not yet up to date. There is no such thing as documentation date <-> PHP version relationship.

We need a point of contact to provide the PHP 4.0 documentation (.JAR file) to with a short description of the ThoutTReader. Note: The ThoutTReader easily supports multiple languages.

Probably only systems@php.net people could help you get a file into the documentation distribution space, I have no sufficient rights to help you in this. It is sometimes not easy to get some quick action done through systems@, since they are busy people. So if nothing else works, we can put up a new format column and links to your site to download the manual in different languages. Are you going to provide the manual in non-English languages? If no, then a separate column might not be that good an idea at all. Goba