Re: OSI approval for PHP 3.01 license

> On Mar 5, 2020, at 16:31, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 05.03.2020 at 22:36, Ben Ramsey wrote: > >> There is some concern at the OSI about these clauses, when the license is applied to any >> projects not owned by the PHP Group. I’ll keep everyone here posted and will let you know if these >> become more than passing concerns. >> >> >> 3. The name "PHP" must not be used to endorse or promote products >> derived from this software without prior written permission. For >> written permission, please contact group@php.net. >> >> 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" > > These clauses are identical to those in version 3.0[1], which apparently > has been approved by OSI. I do not believe these clauses will be an issue for acceptance of 3.01 through the legacy approval process. We got sidetracked on a discussion about them. I’ve just opened a pull request on web-php that should help the legacy approval process. See this post: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-March/004741.html Here is the PR: https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/318 Cheers, Ben

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