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

Hi David On 2/8/07, David Weekly <david@weekly.org> wrote:

Hannes, http://php.net/about.notes && http://php.net/opl.license Super-helpful links! Thank you. To be crystal clear, in the incorporation of *code* from the *notes*, the code is covered under the OPL, provided the following text blurb is available somewhere, say in the code comments? "Copyright (c) 2007 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" Sorry to be pendantic, I just need to know how I can avoid breaking the law here. :) It's pretty clear what one would do in the case of making a book out of the user comments and a little less clear (to me) as to what to do about using code from the comments in one's application.

I am no lawyer, but I've asked around and everyone throws me the same answer: As long as that "blurb" is somewhere in the code, readme or about section you are safe. -Hannes

Cheers, David