Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] PHP development principles

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:54, zoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> It seems very php-src and pecl specific.. People signing up for
>> pear/doc/gtk/gd accounts will also have to go via that form.
>>
>
> That's a good point. I know the docs have a separate license and what I have
> written does not apply to some of the things you have listed.
> I looked at what Perl and Python do, they both have "about" pages where the
> licenses are described in simple non-legal terms. We could write pages like
> that for PHP and link to them from the CVS account request form, I think
> adding all of the possibilities into the CVS request form would make the
> form too long. Is that a better solution?

An "about licenses php.net project use" page sounds like a great idea.
Adding a link to that page from "I have read and understand the
[license page]" checkbox would be fine I think..

In the meantime (it will probably be years before someone wants to get
their brain fried on this), your patch seems fine.

-Hannes