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

[email protected] (Hannes Magnusson) Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:43:08 +0200
Newsgroups php.doc.license,php.webmaster
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/4/13 Łukasz Czerwiński <[email protected]>:
> W dniu 13 kwietnia 2009 19:39 użytkownik Hannes Magnusson
> <[email protected]> napisał:
>>
>> 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
>
> Ok... So what I have to do to legally use a function submited by a user in
> my commercial code?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

-Hannes