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

Stefan Esser 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.

well, given that the Apache license has the very same restriction in it (there are minor wording differences and it obviously protects the term "Apache" instead of "PHP") and that the Apache license was among the first to become OSI approved the explanation should be clear: "discrimination" is defined as discrimination in the use of the code, not the name. So "you may not use this code for military purposes" or "this code may not be modified by left handed people" would be discriminating by the OSI definition while "you may not re-publish it using the same name" or "you may not re-publish it without copyright notices left intact" are not ... If we were talking about GPL compatibility or the FSFs definition of Free Software instead of OSIs definition of Open Source Software things might be a bit different, but we aren't ... So please stop making a fool of yourself, you're riding a dead horse here and no matter how hard you beat it, it won't go any faster (or go at all) ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com