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Re: php license

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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@php.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@php.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
___________
¹  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses>
-- 
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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  Re: php license "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-05-04 12:51 +0200
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