Re: Proposal to change the PHP license

On 28-1-2014 7:38, musicdenotation@gmail.com wrote:

The PHP License, version 3.01, clause 4: Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission from group@php.net. You may indicate that your software works in conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo"

Due to the above clause, the PHP license is not compatible with the GPL. This can be replaced by trademarking the name "PHP" (the programming language), as done by Python and Mozilla

Dear "musicdenotation", PHP had been around for many years already, and in those years the license has barely changed. Nor has there been much discussion about the contents of the license, or negative feedback from people. This indicates that there is little demand to change the license in any way. In any case, posting this in the php-general newsgroup is of little value, since this is a general help group. The people frequenting this group generally do not have much to say about the PHP license (note that this is a license not for users of PHP (the language) but rather for internal usage of the PHP engine (ie. extensions written in C)). If you want to have more chance of people answering your proposal who actually can change the license, you should ask at php-internals (internals@lists.php.net). - Tul P.S. Not using a normal name (musicdenotation is not a name), nor signing with it, makes your email look less respectful, and thus you should not expect people to take it very seriously. Just a tip for any future communication.