Bug 419081
Summary: | doc license (OPL) is not using free clauses | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
Component: | php-manual-en | Assignee: | Tim Jackson <rpm> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | tcallawa |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2008-01-05 14:37:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 182235, 235706 |
Description
Karsten Wade
2007-12-11 01:31:48 UTC
Sent to doc-license.net: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi As a volunteer in the Fedora Project [1], a popular Linux distribution, I help to package the PHP documentation. Since we, like most Linux distributions, include the PHP language, it seems helpful to our users to include the electronic reference manual too. It has been brought to my attention [2] that the current PHP documentation license prevents the distribution of modified copies of the work, which thus makes it ineligible [3] for inclusion in Fedora, and most likely other distributions which have policies about their content being exclusively Free (the definition of which generally requires the right to modify and distribute modified works). Whilst I recognise that a licensing change may be regarded as significant on your part, it seems to me to be a great shame to have to omit the PHP manual from Free distributions due to the limiting clauses. I wonder therefore whether there is any possibility that you would consider removing the restrictive licensing clauses? Thanks for your much-valued work on the PHP manual, and your time and consideration of this licensing point. Tim [1] http://fedoraproject.org [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419081 [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses I see that there is some discussion in that thread, but these docs will either need to be relicensed (by upstream) or pulled before F9. Thread on the doc-license list starts here: http://news.php.net/php.doc.license/172 I can't see any hope of an immediate relicensing so I will pull for F9 alpha. Retired from F9+ in CVS for now. If licensing changes I will put back in. Good news - the license upstream has changed to Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which is OK according to the licensing guidelines. So I'll look at getting this back in again :-) |