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Re: php license [message #173806 is a reply to message #173790]

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:23

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Aleks Kleyn wrote:

> Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:
>> Aleks Kleyn wrote:
>>> when I setup MSI file from http://us3.php.net/downloads.php web site,
>>> it shows license agreement which includes following text
>>>
>>> 3. The name "PHP" must not be used to endorse or promote products
>>> derived from this software without prior written permission. For
>>> written permission, please contact group(at)php(dot)net.
>>>
>>> 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor
>>> may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission
>>> from group(at)php(dot)net. You may indicate that your software works in
>>> conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling
>>> it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo"
>>>
>>>
>>> Does it mean that I cannot use php files.on public web site?
>>
>> It means that you can take the source code of the PHP interpreter
>> (written in C), make changes to it and advertise it as "Kleyn Language",
>> but you are not allowed to call it "SuperPHP" unless you are granted
>> explicit permission. Which make sense.
>
> i think if you take source code for PHP and derive on it another language,
> this will be also breaking author's right, whatever name you will give to
> new language,

No, Alvaro is correct. PHP is Open Source. It is *intended* to be derived
from (according to the FSF, it only does not qualify as free software
because of the "PHP" name issue¹). Read before you think, and think before
you post.

PointedEars
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¹ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses>
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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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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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