OPL licensing terms

Hi

As a volunteer in the Fedora Project [1], a popular Linux distribution,
I help to package the PHP documentation. Since we, like most Linux
distributions, include the PHP language, it seems helpful to our users
to include the electronic reference manual too.

It has been brought to my attention [2] that the current PHP
documentation license prevents the distribution of modified copies of
the work, which thus makes it ineligible [3] for inclusion in Fedora,
and most likely other distributions which have policies about their
content being exclusively Free (the definition of which generally
requires the right to modify and distribute modified works).

Whilst I recognise that a licensing change may be regarded as
significant on your part, it seems to me to be a great shame to have to
omit the PHP manual from Free distributions due to the limiting clauses.
I wonder therefore whether there is any possibility that you would
consider removing the restrictive licensing clauses?

Thanks for your much-valued work on the PHP manual, and your time and
consideration of this licensing point.


Tim

[1] http://fedoraproject.org
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419081
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses