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

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:28:54PM -0700, Jim Winstead wrote: > 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. Normally publisher pay the authors and print their names on the front page. > > 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 My motivation goes down to NULL. If I'm a publisher (which happens soon) I haven't to share the incomings with the authors. > 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. PHP is (at least PHP 3) Open Source Software and under the GPL. The PHP manual is a different thing. It is not software. > > 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. And why haven't you changed them? Use the license for manuals from the FSF or ask RMS which one is more appropriate. > 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.) You are too late, April the First is over. -Egon -- LinuxTag, Stuttgart, Germany: July 5-8 2001: http://www.linuxtag.de/ All known books about PHP and related books: http://php.net/books.php Concert Band of the University of Hohenheim: http://www.concert-band.de/ First and second bestselling book in German: http://www.php-buch.de/