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Re: php license [message #173784 is a reply to message #173771]

Wed, 04 May 2011 18:01

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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P E Schoen wrote:

> "Aleks Kleyn" wrote in message news:4dc0b472$1$9092$607ed4bc(at)cv(dot)net...
>> Does it mean that I cannot use php files.on public web site?
>
> Read:
> http://us3.php.net/license/
> and
> http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt
>
> There is certainly no restriction on using the .php extension, as that is
> required (at least for normal server setups). And the restrictions seem to
> be more of a guideline rather than enforced by copyright law, unless you
> use the source files without permission.
>
> But I may be wrong. Hopefully the experts will confirm (or refute) my
> opinion.

You are wrong (and alarmingly naive) thinking that a software license is not
legally binding; it is. People have been successfully sued for violating a
software license before; whole companies had to shut down because the
damages they had to pay for license violation ruined their business.

However, the referred sections are not about "the .php extension" (and the
OP did not ask about that in the first place). They are about using the
name "PHP" in the name of one's own product and to promote that product
using the PHP name. That is generally possible, but you need *written
permission* from the PHP people first (presumably they say so because they
want to make sure that the "PHP" name is not being abused.) So we can
assume that, e.g., the creators of Eclipse PHP Development Tools, and PhpED,
and the webmasters of PHPBuilder.net and Planet PHP, to name just a few, did
just that.)

HTH

PointedEars (IANAL)
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		php license By: Aleks Kleyn on Wed, 04 May 2011 02:05
		Re: php license By: P E Schoen on Wed, 04 May 2011 02:42
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 04 May 2011 18:01
		Re: php license By: me on Wed, 04 May 2011 10:42
		Re: php license By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 04 May 2011 10:51
		Re: php license By: Aleks Kleyn on Thu, 05 May 2011 00:33
		Re: php license By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 05 May 2011 07:56
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 05 May 2011 17:23
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 04 May 2011 15:51
		Re: php license By: VanguardLH on Wed, 04 May 2011 22:14
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 05 May 2011 16:10
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 05 May 2011 19:20
		Re: php license By: VanguardLH on Thu, 05 May 2011 19:50
		Re: php license By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 05 May 2011 20:30

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