Re: OSI approval for PHP 3.01 license

> On Mar 5, 2020, at 08:13, Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> wrote: > > >> 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 I’m following up with an update on this… The standard procedure for the OSI is a 60-day review period, after which they make a recommendation to the board and then take action at the next board meeting. We have reached the end of that 60-day period, and the license committee chair has submitted a recommendation for approval to the board. It’ll be voted on at the next board meeting, which I think is either today or sometime soon after today. Here’s the official recommendation: > - License: The PHP License, version 3.01 (Exhibit A) > - Submitted: 4 March 2020, > 7����� > ��gdphttp://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-March/004716.html > - Decision date: due no later than the first Board meeting > after 3 May 2020 > > License Review Committee Recommendation: > > _Resolved that it is the opinion of the OSI that the The PHP > License, version 3.01 be approved as an Open Source Initiative > Approved License in the Non-Reusable Licenses category of > licenses. The OSI-Approved PHP License version 3.00 shall be > moved to the “superseded” category of licenses._ The full recommendation email is available here: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-May/004818.html I’ll let the list know when the approval is final. Cheers, Ben Cheers, Ben

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