On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 03:29 +0100, Yannick Warnier wrote: > I think it would be reasonnable to leave that to a trademark registration, > and out of the software license. > At the same time, I don't think I've seen anyone start a project called > Python, Java, Perl, or anything like this in the last 10 years.
a) as mentioned in this thread (and each time this came up over the last 15-20 years) you hardly get a three letter international trademark (well, U.S. / Europe etc.) companies like BMW do due to having a massive brand which was quite established before the laws came and many lawyers, this is nothing for us. b) the license applies to people creating work derived on PHP, not stuff using PHP. The license prevents people from forking PHP and confusing users which is the "official PHP". If you fork it make it clear by using a new name. There are one or two cases in the past where this was enforced. Other projects due that via trademark law in more restrictive ways. (good luck with i.e. the java brand ;) ) johannes -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
