Jochen Metzger wrote:
Well actually the original paragraph in english is:
Any publication in standard (paper) book form shall require the citation
of the original publisher and author
I am not sure what this exactly means.
Actually IMHO this means that, you are allowed to make copies of pages
of it as long it is not published as a "standard book" or "standard
paperbook". So you are allowed to copy single pages with a copymachine
and use them for e.g. training.
Did I get that alright, or am I misunderstanding the license wrong.
Copying/Printing parts of the manual and distributing them as training
material should be ok with all of us and even with the license. Add a
notice like "This material is taken from the PHP manual available on
<URL> and is (c) by the PHP Documentation Group" should completely
put you on the safe side (even handing out a complete printout of the
manual to your students should be ok this way, it's only about 4000+
pages right now ;)
What the license trys to prevent is just that some publisher publishes
the document as a regular book without prior permission (IMHO)
Disclaimer: i'm an engineer, not a lawyer, so please don't take my
personal opinions as legel advice ;)
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