Re: Proposal for license change

My suggestion: For now just add the "™" mark to PHP. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-about/t-protect/t-protect-unreg.htm http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trademark With these I think you can now safely remove clause 4 for GPL compatibility. > On Apr 3, 2014, at 20:26, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > >> On 04/02/2014 06:54 PM, Kris Craig wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Sharon Levy <slevy1@pipeline.com> wrote: >>> 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? > >> 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. > > Right, not being beholden to any sort of corporate entity is very much > on purpose. Nobody "owns" PHP and at the same time we all "own" PHP. > That is the only way to keep PHP truly open and accessible to all, for > better or worse. > > I also think you underestimate the hassle involved in getting (and > protecting) a Madrid-protocol international trademark for a 3-letter term. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >