Re: Proposal for license change

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Sharon Levy <slevy1@pipeline.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com> > To: <musicdenotation@gmail.com> > Cc: "PHP internals" <internals@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 10:14 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for license change > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:31 AM, <musicdenotation@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1, 2, 3. Zend? >> > > Zend does not own PHP. And the waste majority of contributors do not > even work for Zend. > > 4, 5. GPL compatibility is for users to use PHP in a GPL-licensed >> project, not for PHP developers to include GPL-licensed code in their PHP >> project. >> > > Well, even for the latter there are issues. Let alone the v3 and *GPL > licenses, which create even more confusions. > > 6. group@php.net may license the mark unconditionally for licensees to >> achieve the same effect as "removing the clause". The mark license would be >> for copyright, so there would be no conflict with the trademark ("PHP®"). >> > > And how do you finance it? World wild? > ............................................................ > ..................... > I'd like to respond to question of who owns PHP with some thoughts that I > trust are germane to the topic. > > Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate > sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by > Canonical? If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it, > wouldn't it be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't > the issue of acquiring a trademark then be feasible? > > -- Sharon > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > And if the company's shareholders decide they want PHP to go in a certain direction, what then? I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea. It just makes me really, really nervous. I'm not sure a trademark and funding would be worth giving-up our independence. --Kris