Re: cvs: phpweb / copyright.php license.html style.css /include layout.inc

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Egon Schmid (@work) wrote: > Colin Viebrock wrote: > > > > > actually, yes. that's why the manual is under the gpl. (and there > > > is at least one company doing this already.) > > > > Oh. I didn't know that. > > It's the PHP Manual in two volumes by Stig S[?]ther Bakken, Zeev > Suraski, Egon Schmid. Publisher iUniverse.com Incorporated, Pub. Date: > November 2000. > > This very old PDF manuals can be ordered via www.amazon.com or > www.bn.com. > > But it is not true that the manual is under the GPL so that every > publisher can publish the PHP manual. This company graps every manual > they can find and publish it, if it have the GPL. good for them. > Does any from the authors of the PHP manual get paid by iUniverse? no. as one of the authors, do i care? not at all. do any of the authors of php itself get paid every time that red hat or suse or caldera or anyone else sells a cd with php on it? no. as one of the authors, do i care? not at all. > The GPL was choosen by accident. It have been discussed already, that we > should switch ASAP to another more appropriate license. interesting application of "asap". i think i was the one who first raised the issue a couple of years ago. why did i raise it? so *more* publishers would print the manual, and hopefully contribute back to making the freely-available manual better, rather than paying yet another author to write the same basic material. (but not so that the contribution would become a requirement.) jim