Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
>
> Egon Schmid wrote:
> >
> > Derick Rethans wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> > >
> > > > telling us your real name would be a good start ;)
> > > >
> > > > besides that is obviously time to re-start the license
> > > > discussion here ?
> > >
> > > noooooooooooooooooooooooo, not again =)
> >
> > If I get no answer against to change the GPL to another appropriate
> > license for the PHP manual, I will do it within the next four weeks.
> first: which other license are you talking about?
OPL (the GNU variant)
> second: you cannot change from GPL/PHP License to another license
> without the agreement of all contributors and i'm not sure that getting
> no negative answers to an anouncement on this list will satisfy the
> legal requirements for a license change which is a change of an
> implicit contract between all contributors after all
The PHP documentation have been only published under the GPL license.
For a change I don't need all contributors, I need only the editors and
authors and a good lawyer :)
> > I don't see a argument to not discussing the license issue on this
> > mailing list.
> Derick was refering to 'the very other' license discussion, especialy
> its LinuxTag instances, i guess
I was invited to that meeting, but half an hour before the meeting
someone told me that this is a closed meeting I wasn't invited. Since I
haven't read nothing in a newspaper or a journal, Derick means obviously
the source code license. The PHP documentation is independent from the
PHP license.
-Egon
