[PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b From: Joey Smith (joey <email protected>)
Date: 08/21/00

Egon:
        I realize that there is little to nothing that we can do about
what this guy has already done...

        My comment was simply that maybe the GNU FDL is more appropriate
than the GPL for the manual. It allows for things like invariant
sections (things that you cannot change/remove) and such that makes it a
bit better suited to documentation than the GPL, which simply talks
about the availability of the SOURCE.

        I am a bit of a "GNU-ist", though. Maybe the OPL is better for
the needs of the PHP Docs...just my two bits.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Egon Schmid ( <email protected>) wrote the following to Joey Smith :

> Joey Smith wrote:
> >
> > Has the GNU FDL (Free Documentation License) been considered?
> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
>
> There was some discussion, to use the OPL instead the GPL. The author
> Jörg Krause translated 300 pages from the manual without any permisson.
> The original authors aren't in his book. Now the copyright is with the
> publisher.
>
> But this doesn't help here. He uses content from our manual and everyone
> thinks, he has written it himself. Because this is illegal all three
> (author, publisher, printer) have gotton a punishment. If they pay, its
> over, if they don't pay, we'll see him on court.
>
> I have seen his list of planned books. In a few months, there will be a
> book about MySQL. This have to be stopped by any means. And Jörg Krause
> will never publish a book with that publisher.
>
> -Egon