Re: OSI approval for PHP 3.01 license

> On Mar 4, 2020, at 11:59, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Ben Ramsey wrote: > >>>> On Mar 4, 2020, at 11:26, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>>> Does anyone here remember why the changes to the license where done in >>>> the first place? The commit was done on the 1st of Jan. 2006 (at least >>> >>> Probably for more clear wording (since outside of context "PHP" can mean >>> many things). >>> >>> Since 3.0 and 3.01 are essentially the same license, I'm not sure who >>> would bother to go through the bureaucracy, not sure who did it the last >>> time (or whether anybody did that at all). Maybe worth reaching out to >>> OSI folks and asking them to update their list, since 3.0 and 3.01 are >>> the same. >> >> I’m on the OSI license-discuss mailing list and happy to open up a >> conversation there, unless there are objections? > > Please do. I ran into this the other day when I was rewriting the README > for Xdebug too: > > https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug/commit/c4371d9d18957965a590daee13bca82ff5205324#diff-88b99bb28683bd5b7e3a204826ead112R92-R96 > I’ve submitted a formal request for “legacy approval” to the OSI license-review list, according to their policies. http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-March/004716.html Cheers, Ben