Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] A question about code license

2009/4/13 Daniel Brown <[email protected]>:
> 2009/4/13 Łukasz Czerwiński <[email protected]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have found a useful function written by a user in comments below one of
>> PHP functions. I would like to use it in a commercial site. Whom should I
>> ask for a permission? You, because of the license stated here
>> http://us2.php.net/copyright.php (The text on this website is (C) Copyright
>> PHP Group) or the user who posted this function?
>
>    When a user contributes a note to our websites, the content of
> that note remains the copyrighted property of the user.  If you can
> find the contact information for the contributor, please contact them

All user submitted notes are considered as part of the manual, and are
therefore distributed under the manual license.
There is no need to try hunting the original note author.

-Hannes