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P E Schoen wrote:

> "Aleks Kleyn"  wrote in message news:4dc0b472$1$9092$607ed4bc@cv.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)
-- 
Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people
who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>

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