Re: Proposal for license change

No, you don't have to sell your soul to a commercial company. You just have to unite and form a legal entity/foundation like Mozilla or Python Software Foundation. > On Apr 3, 2014, at 8:54, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Sharon Levy <slevy1@pipeline.com> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com> >> To: <musicdenotation@gmail.com> >> Cc: "PHP internals" <internals@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 10:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for license change >> >> >> >>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:31 AM, <musicdenotation@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 1, 2, 3. Zend? >> >> Zend does not own PHP. And the waste majority of contributors do not >> even work for Zend. >> >> 4, 5. GPL compatibility is for users to use PHP in a GPL-licensed >>> project, not for PHP developers to include GPL-licensed code in their PHP >>> project. >> >> Well, even for the latter there are issues. Let alone the v3 and *GPL >> licenses, which create even more confusions. >> >> 6. group@php.net may license the mark unconditionally for licensees to >>> achieve the same effect as "removing the clause". The mark license would be >>> for copyright, so there would be no conflict with the trademark ("PHP®"). >> >> And how do you finance it? World wild? >> ............................................................ >> ..................... >> I'd like to respond to question of who owns PHP with some thoughts that I >> trust are germane to the topic. >> >> Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate >> sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by >> Canonical? If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it, >> wouldn't it be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't >> the issue of acquiring a trademark then be feasible? >> >> -- Sharon >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > And if the company's shareholders decide they want PHP to go in a certain > direction, what then? I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea. It just > makes me really, really nervous. I'm not sure a trademark and funding > would be worth giving-up our independence. > > --Kris