Re: Is this what Stefan Esser was referring to ...?

Alain Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:16AM +1100, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> From a bigger perspective, the reason we prefer people to not use the >> PHP name for their projects, especially modified versions of PHP itself, >> is that in the extreme case we want to avoid someone releasing PHP 7 on >> us. That would confuse a lot of people. For better or worse, if >> someone is using PHP they are using code we have control over, so when >> they report a bug or describe a problem we have a pretty good idea about >> how to go about fixing it. If they are using a heavily modified version >> of PHP, then it becomes much harder for us to figure out what is going >> on and by asking people to come up with their own brand for such >> modifications it becomes obvious to everyone involved that there is a >> different codebase involved. > > It is a difficult problem and we need to take care before adopting a stance > on it, look what happened with the Debian firefox/iceweasle debacle. It's not really up for discussion. The decision was reached some 8+ years ago with the adoption of the clause in the license which is quite explicit. -Rasmus