Re: Is this what Stefan Esser was referring to ...?
| From: | Marcus Boerger | Date: | Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:16:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is this what Stefan Esser was referring to ...? | ||
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Hello Stefan,
the license rules are the same, get in contact.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 8:14:47 PM, you wrote:
> Hello Marcus,
>> that's plain wrong what you wrote. First PHP license is OSI Approved and
>> for that defintively does not violate any OSI recommendation. Besides that
>>
> We will see how OSI explains how a discriminating license can be OSI
> approved.
>> read the paragraph again and again. You will eventually find out that the
>> act of disallowing to use the term "php" in any of their names to whomever
>> by the php-group does not violate definition part 5. In fact that tells you
>> that php-group must allow anyone to contribute, which they do. Noone has
>>
> I suggest that you read it again and again:
> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
> This means the license MUST NOT have different rules for different kinds
> of people. Those in favour of PHP Group and those not.
>> any term in any license means some restiction that only applies to
>> certain people. ups.
>>
> This is plain nonsense. Other licenses pretty much make it clear that
> ANYONE has to follow the same rules.
>> p.s.: Instead of discussing stuff that is better of with layers you guys
>> should contribute to open source....in the spirit of open source...
>>
> The spirit of open source is NOT that those in favour of the PHP Group
> can abuse the PHP Project for whatever they want. Like advertise their
> own companies.
> Stefan Esser
Best regards,
Marcus