Chris, The copyright appears on all php.net pages, which leads me to believe that the website itself is copyrighted with all rights reserved.
I downloaded a copy of the manual, and it is distributed with the following: "Copyright (c) 1997 - 2009 by the PHP Documentation Group. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license</a> is distributed with this manual. The latest version is presently available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"; This leads me to believe that the manual is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, while the website itself (design, images, layout, and non-manual text) is under a stronger copyright. Brandon On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Chris Shiflett <shifl...@php.net> wrote: > A project of the Web Application Security Consortium is to try to classify > and define security threats. For one of the definitions, we would like to > possibly quote relevant parts of the PHP manual, but the license is a little > unclear. I'm hoping someone can help clarify. > > At the bottom of each page, there is a copyright notice: > > Copyright (c) 2001-2009 The PHP Group > All rights reserved. > > In the license FAQ (http://php.net/license/index.php#doc-lic), there is > the following statement: > > "The PHP manual text is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 > License, copyright (c) the PHP Documentation Group." > > We believe in spirit that the manual is covered by the CC license, and we > can therefore use the details of that to guide us. However, the fact that > this is only mentioned on one page, and a seemingly conflicting copyright > and license statement exists on the actual manual pages, gives us pause. > > Thanks for any clarification you can offer. > > Chris
