Re: [DOC-LICENSE] Reusing documentation contributed to phpdoc in DB2 documentation

[email protected] (Gabor Hojtsy) Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:10:40 +0200
Newsgroups php.doc.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Okay, that's great news -- so to confirm:
> 
> * we'll treat this as an aggregation of parts of the PHP manual
> * to comply with the terms of the Open Publication License the
> official DB2 documentation will need to include a legal notice along
> the lines of:
> 
> "This documentation incorporates text which is copyright 1997, 2005 by
> the PHP Documentation Group. The text was taken by permission from the
> PDO and ibm_db2 sections of the PHP Manual (http://php.net/manual/)
> under the following terms:
> 
>     Copyright (c) 1997, 2005 by the PHP Documentation Group. This
> material may be
>     distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
> the Open Publication
>     License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at
>     http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).
> "

These terms are not complete this way, the two paragraphs after this are
also part of the license, and those are mandatory:

| http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
| The reference must be immediately followed with any options elected
| by the author(s) and/or publisher of the document (see section VI).

Otherwise this seems to be fine.

Regards,
Gabor Hojtsy