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Hi, all!

Over the years, the open source community, including Debian, has had a few lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the PHP license.[^1][^2][^3] The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: change the license to something well-understood and less problematic.

So, that’s what I’m proposing to do in a new RFC I’ve drafted for the PHP project: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update 

I’ve not opened this up for discussion within the PHP project yet, since I’m still collecting feedback, and that’s why I’m sharing it here. I’ve put a lot of work into presenting what I think is a sound and well-reasoned argument for this change, and I’m asking for feedback from this group regarding the method and theory I’m using to go about it.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Ben


[^1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Flists.debian.org%2Fdebian-legal%2F+php
[^2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/604630/
[^3]: https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html

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  Re: Updating the PHP license "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-05-18 23:00 +0200
  Re: Updating the PHP license Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2024-05-19 18:50 +0200
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        Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2024-05-22 03:00 +0200
          Re: Updating the PHP license Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2024-05-23 20:50 +0200
            Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2024-05-24 07:20 +0200
              Re: Updating the PHP license Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2024-05-25 17:10 +0200
                Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2024-05-25 18:00 +0200
          Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2024-05-23 06:20 +0200
      Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2024-05-22 03:00 +0200
  Re: Updating the PHP license Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> - 2026-02-27 06:20 +0100
    Re: Updating the PHP license Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2026-02-28 00:00 +0100

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