Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 10:17, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> (C) Bite the bullet and admit that when everybody else calls a color
> "light blue" which we consider to be "cyan", we might as well docuent
> that fact instead of trying to convince everybody else that they're
> wrong, even if they are, from our PoV. After all, the color stays the
> same, no matter what people call it.
>
> By the same token, this license is valid by force of everybody under
> the sun considering it to be valid (taking intent and all that into
> account). The chance of an author of / contributor to one of these
> packages (nobody else has any legal standing to do so) suing us for
> distributing this code is … well … I suspect that if you want to get
> a lawyer to laugh, you might as well ask them.
>
> So. Bottom line: Can we agree to compromise on some modification of
> (C) informally, or is a GR required?
JFTR the http://www.php.net/software page claims that software
distributed from php.net, pecl.php.net and pear.php.net distributes
software under PHP License[1].
This was also claimed in some private emails between me and
PHP folks[2].
My conclusion is that the PHP folks do agree that the PHP License
cannot be used for software outside *.php.net, but it's perfectly OK
for stuff distributed from *.php.net.
If there's no wild disagreement from FTP Masters on this in couple
of days I will just start closing bugs on packages distributed from
*.php.net.
1,2: smarty3 should be okay as well, it's just not yet documented there.
Ondrej
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