Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-11-03 Thread Robinson Tryon
to keep the ball rolling on this, so please let me know if you have any comments or questions. A copy of my email from the 26th including the information from the lawyers is quoted below. Thanks, -- Robinson On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-26 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Philip Olson phi...@roshambo.org wrote: I avoid the topic of licenses whenever possible but let's make a decision. It feels like most would prefer dual licensing for code snippets

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-12 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Christopher Jones christopher.jo...@oracle.com wrote: I wwould NOT like to see dual licensing.  Aside from any likely legal issues I think we're all interested in any potential legal issues that licensing changes could bring. What additional legal issues would

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Philip Olson phi...@roshambo.org wrote: I avoid the topic of licenses whenever possible but let's make a decision. It feels like most would prefer dual licensing for code snippets (despite GPL and PHP not getting along all that well, ever) so let's do that.

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-04 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Hannes Magnusson hannes.magnus...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, when adding a use contributor note the note becomes 'property of the PHP Documentation Group' See http://no.php.net/manual/add-note.php This means that any note submitted here becomes the property of

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-04 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Brandon Savage bran...@brandonsavage.net wrote: The CC-BY license states [...some things...] ... This is the provision from which I derived that fair use avoids infringement even if credit is not given. (IANAL) but it's entirely possible that a Fair Use

Re: [PHP-DOC] License for code examples in the PHP manual?

2010-10-04 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:    I'm of the opinion that we should license all machine-interpretable examples (i.e. - code snippets) in both the official documentation usage examples and user-submitted examples alike - including those from the mailing