Re: [DOC-LICENSE] permission for derivative work

Hi Patrick,

> Thank you for the rapid response.
> 
> On Sep 22, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> 
>> If you reuse content from the manual, you should include the full
>> credits as well as the license terms of the work you include. We  have a
>> list of authors as well as a page full of contributors which should be
>> reproduced along with the licensing terms of the manual.
> 
> 
> I have located these resources, in reference to the PHP manual:
> 
>   Contributers: http://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php#contributors
>   License Terms: http://www.php.net/manual/en/copyright.php
> 
> I assume that this information about the PHP manual will need to be 
> distributed with the ruby-web manual, should I re-use content from  the
> PHP manual.  I also assume that I will need to license the ruby- web
> manual in a format compatible with the Open Publication license.   It
> seems the easiest step would be to license the ruby-web manual  under
> the same license, but I need to read over it first.
> 
> Let me know if I've missed something, I'd like to get this right.
> 
>> If you find any errors in the PHP manual, please submit bug reports of
>> even better patches using our bug system at bugs.php.net (use the
>> Documentation Problem category).
> 
> I will use this mechanism if I find anything.

You are right. Please also include the author and editor list from the
main page.

Regars,
Gabor Hojtsy