On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:38:29PM -0800, Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote:
> I think that the printed PHP Manuals should be added
> to the books.php list, and/or linked from the docs.php
> page too.
>
> Saw them at Amazon.com:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595132278
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595132286
>
> Someone with enough karma may want to do these updates
> in phpweb.
If you do that I will delete it. This is a very old copy of a historical
PDF file. Its distributed under the GPL (which is not appropriate for
documentation). And the publisher said, he will give a portion of the
money he earns to the open source community. He said not to which
community.
Since the PHP manual is under the GPL all people around the world think,
they can copy it and publish it in printed form. This is also the thinking
mostly all PHP Group and Documentation members. But the publisher have
now the copyright and this can us protect from distributing the manual as
usual. Copyright law is not GPL.
Only Jouni and Hartmut have seen the problems. I haven't yet received any
feedback about the conversation with Rasmus, RMS, and Hartmut at Bruessel
about that problem.
-Egon
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