Re: [DOC-LICENSE] phpdoc license

I don't want to start a flame war but:
"Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is
prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard
(paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from
the copyright holder." Quoted from
http://il2.php.net/manual/en/copyright.php

Really does makes it non-free (I can't print the manual to teach students).

Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm the maintainer of the Debian phpdoc package
>>(http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/phpdoc).
>>
>>I'd like to ask why did you change the license to OPL?
>>
>>Since Debian considers the OPL as non-free,
>>(http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/dls-005-opl)  I can't distribute
>>phpdoc with Debian officially.
>>
>>Any change you'd change this to another license? Is there someone
>>particular I should try to convince?
> 
> 
> The change of license was done after endless consulting with the 
> primairy authors and the current maintainers. I'm afraid that we will 
> not change it.
> 
> Also, I think the only person that you need to convince is the debian 
> legal people which are anally retentive about what is non free or not.
> 
> Derick
> 

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Regards,

Lior Kaplan
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http://www.Guides.co.il

Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID)