Re: Re-Releasing PEAR packages under the BSD license

Sylvain Beucler schrieb:

I see that 'PHP Group' is marked as copyright holder of PEAR packages, so it wouldn't be needed to contact each and every contributor to change this.

This is problematic anyways, as by German law, for example, it is not possible to "give away" your copyright to another person or organisation - the only exception being if you're a programmer employed by said organisation. All you can give away is a license for i.e. free usage of your source code, but the copyright always remains that of the individual who came up with the code. Thus, I doubt that even if I'd write "copyright by The PHP Group" into my sources, this would have any serious effect if it ever came to a lawsuit (for whatever reason). I think in Austria there's a similar law, but I don't know for sure. CU Markus