Good afternoon, Chris....
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 13:20, 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.
Not a problem at all.
> At the bottom of each page, there is a copyright notice:
>
> Copyright (c) 2001-2009 The PHP Group
> All rights reserved.
This is for the content of the website as a whole, including
imagery and opinions expressed therein.
> 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.
Correct. While the general website and content of such are
Copyrighted by the PHP Group, the documentation is actually licensed
wholly under the CCA3U license. The easiest way of explaining this is
as follows:
We hold a Copyright on all content of the php.net website AND
ALSO serve content for the official manual as a public service to the
development community.
While we host and maintain the official documentation, others are
free to use and reuse it. So you're perfectly within your rights,
granted by the license, to quote it, republish it, etc., as long as
you (a) acknowledge that it was originally written by the PHP Group;
(b) that the PHP Group neither endorses nor is associated with you,
your projects or services, etc.; and (c) [optionally] provide a link
to or description of how the end-user may obtain access to the
original works.
Any other questions, please let us know. Thanks!
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