Hello,
I initiated a discussion with the PHP and PEAR group:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.pear.devel/40682/focus=40682
Nobody is sure about whether the latest PHP license is compatible with
the GNU GPL, in fact.
- Could you precise whether the PHP license v3.0_1_ is compatible with
GPLv2? There's only comments about compatibility with v3.0 (not
3.01). I attach a diff. I think those changes were made to make the
license applicable to works that are not PHP itself but also
released by the PHP Group, following a request by the Debian-legal
people.
- More importantly, is the PHP license v3.01 compatible with
GPLv3draft2?
The comment at the end of
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/PHP_license%2C_version_3.01 makes
me thing there's no compatibility:
"However, the second draft of the GPLv3 prohibits the following additional
terms:
requirements regarding changes to the name of the work
which conflicts with the PHP license's prohibition on using "PHP" as a name for
the work."
This affects the way we approve GNU GPL'd project using PEAR packages
at Savannah, so I'd like to be sure about it. Can you check?
Thanks,
--
Sylvain
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:27:04PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to include the QuickForm package/library [1] in my GPL'd
> application. It is licensed under the PHP license and is Copyright (c)
> 1997-2003 The PHP Group.
>
> As the license is not compatible with GNU GPLv2, I'd like to make the
> QuickForm people switch their license. I already contacted them but
> they do not seem much informed about the situation. I know I could
> wait for GPLv3 but I need this library for a developpement right now -
> so I'm willing to spent a little time on a license change :)
>
> Maybe I could add a GPL exception to my program in order to legally
> use it, but I also use other GPL'd pieces of code that I don't own, so
> this is probably not an option.
>
>
> I have 2 questions:
>
> - Did you already have to deal with the PHP license and PEAR packages?
> Do you have any advice/experience about this? This issue is not new.
>
> - Do you know whether the 'PHP Group' is a legal entity? I asked the
> QuickForm authors whether they signed a copyright paper - they
> didn't reply yet. I could not find a way to contact this 'PHP Group'
> either. I wonder whether the 'PHP Group' is really the copyright
> holder of QuickForm, or if the copyright notice is just part of a
> PEAR policy, without legal basis - in which case each contributor
> would be a co-owner, and a license change would be quite difficult,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [1] http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm
> [2] http://www.php.net/license/2_02.txt
> [3]
> http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pear/HTML_QuickForm/QuickForm.php?revision=1.162&view=markup
>
> --
> Sylvain
--- 3_0.txt 2006-12-14 09:40:41.000000000 +0100
+++ 3_01.txt 2006-12-14 09:40:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
- The PHP License, version 3.0
+ The PHP License, version 3.01
Copyright (c) 1999 - 2006 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
acknowledgment:
- "This product includes PHP, freely available from
- <http://www.php.net/>".
+ "This product includes PHP software, freely available from
+ <http://www.php.net/software/>".
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM ``AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@
For more information on the PHP Group and the PHP project,
please see <http://www.php.net>.
-This product includes the Zend Engine, freely available at
+PHP includes the Zend Engine, freely available at
<http://www.zend.com>.
