Proposal for PHP license change
| From: | musicdenotation at gmail dot com | Date: | Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:59:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Proposal for PHP license change | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> 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"
I propose removing this clause from the PHP license for GPL compatibility. My proposal is to make
PHP a trademark (as Python is), because trademark law is intended to deal exactly with this issue.
I'm completely happy with the current license, but I propose this as an improvement.