Re: [PEAR-QA] PHP License

[Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net>]

He's referencing the passage that mentions that you can't use "PHP"  
in your package name. If you called it "BB of PHP" it would be fine.

--Joe

On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> On Wed, August 24, 2005 02:39, Alan Knowles wrote:
>
> > While I agree we probably need to  review 3-5.. It may be worth
> > reminding debial-legal that AFAIK packages like phpgroupware,  
> > phpbb etc.
> > violate the PHP licence.. So I do hope they are addressing those  
> > issues
> > with as much vigor... ;)
>
> I don't quite follow you here. PhpBB2 is licenced under the GNU GPL.
> Reading the PHP licence, the only way it could be bound to the  
> terms of
> tha licence is when it was derived from PHP itself. I don't think  
> you can
> call something programmed in PHP "derived from PHP". I'm curious  
> how you
> think phpbb violates this licence, so we can resolve the problem.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Thijs Kinkhorst
> (Debian phpbb2 co-maintainer)
>
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