Francesco Poli wrote: > OK, let's concentrate on version 3.0 of the PHP license, then. > > The only issue that I see in PHP license version 3.0 *as applied to PHP > itself* is: > > | 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor > | may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission > | from [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may indicate that your software works in > | conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling > | it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo" > > This starts as a name-change clause, but then goes beyond and forbids an > entire class of names for derived works (any name having "PHP" as a > substring, minus some exceptions). > This is overreaching, IMO, and makes the clause non-free.
Worse, it's contradictory. >You may indicate that your software works in conjunction with PHP by >saying "Foo for PHP" PHP appears in the name "Foo for PHP". It would also be pretty nasty if any of the various php-blah-blah packages turned out to be derived from PHP, because they'd all be in violation. > If other debian-legal contributors agree that this clause makes PHP > non-free, I think the PHP group should be contacted and (politely) asked > for a license change. > > The best solution would be persuading the PHP group to state that they > adopt the 2-clause BSD license[1] as version 4.0 of the PHP license. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_2Clause.html :-) > Otherwise, they can simply publish a new version of the PHP license > (3.1?) with this clause purged, or, at least, narrowed down to something > along the lines of: > > | 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP" > | without prior written permission from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or something like this, which I think gets at their goal better (which is to enforce a trademark with a copyright license, which is dumb, but whatever) -- 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", or any name which indicates authorship by or endorsement by php.net, without prior written permission from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or this -- 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", or any name which would infringe on the "PHP" trademark, without prior written permission from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
