Re: Legal Question: Rights To Incorporate Content In PHP Function Definition Comments?

Hi, For so far I currently know this information is published under the same license as PHP. With kind regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Mark Scholten Stream Service Web: http://www.streamservice.nl/ E-mail: mark@streamservice.nl NOC: http://www.mynoc.eu/ NOC e-mail: noc@streamservice.nl Tel.: +31 (0)642 40 86 02 Fax: +31 (0)20 20 101 57 KVK: 08141074 BTW: NL104278274B01 On Wed, February 7, 2007 6:44 pm, David Weekly wrote: > Hi! My name is David Weekly. I run PBwiki, the world's biggest wiki > farm, which is proudly entirely powered by PHP. We'd like to > understand the legal ramifications of incorporating into our source > base functions posted by users as comments on PHP function definitions > in your online manual. > > Your add-note.php notice says "This means that any note submitted here > becomes the property of the PHP Documentation Group." but it's not > clear how one obtains permission from the PHP Documentation Group to > make use of the code in the notes. > > What would be extraordinarily helpful to myself (and likely many > others) is a quick note on the website (or written back to me in an > email) that says: "The PHP Documentation Group openly licenses the > content of the notes posted under the same license as PHP" or even > "The PHP Documentation Group releases all content of notes posted into > the Public Domain". > > While I understand it's of no particular concern to yourself, we're > completing an IP review here in the next day or two, so if you did > manage to attend to this quickly, it'd be a huge help. We love PHP!! > > Thanks For The Awesome Environment, > David Weekly > CEO of PBwiki >