Re: [DOC-LICENSE] OPL licensing terms

Hi,

I really can't see why the OPL license makes it impossible to include the 
PHP manual in fedora.. Can you please enlight me? (and please don't use 
arguments such as FSF doesn't like the license..).

Regards,
Nuno


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Jackson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:58 AM
Subject: [DOC-LICENSE] 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