Re: PHP development principles

Hi Hannes, > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:36, zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi Hannes > >> > >> An "about licenses php.net project use" page sounds like a great idea. > >> Adding a link to that page from "I have read and understand the > >> [license page]" checkbox would be fine I think.. > > > > Someone I work with (Judy) has put together some proposed "about PHP pages", > > see here: http://www.zapt.info/ianal/. > [..] for an updated version of the proposed pages, please see http://www.zapt.info/ianal/ I combined most of the text into one main licensing page, with a list of contents and anchors. I left the suggested guidelines text in two separate files because they have a reasonable amount of content: http://www.zapt.info/ianal/contrib-guidelines-code.html http://www.zapt.info/ianal/distrib-guidelines-code.html This also makes it easy to follow the ReST approach you suggested. > > > > Ideally I think this should be easy to find from the main PHP page(so maybe > > a 'license' link needs to go there) and should also be linked from the CVS > > request form with a check box as you suggest. > > I honestly thought we had a "license" link from the top menu. > It would be good to link to this from the PHP home page (I can't find any 'Licensing' link). > > > What do you think? > > Awesome. > I really appreciate this. > > One comment, should > http://www.zapt.info/ianal/contrib-guidelines-code.html maybe > be in > the form of README file in php-src? > We could then ReST it and display on www.php.net/reST and link to it? > Great idea. - Judy (ps. IANAL either!) Judy Taylor Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU