> > The one big thing that everyone in this thread has missed is that we are > > trying to establish the utility of this licence to software explicitely > > distributed by the PHP Group at php.net in Pear or Pecl. > > Is all that software also written/copyrighted by the PHP Group? It is only distributed by them. > Also, what happens if someone wants to take a package and > distribute it, individually, to someone else? He needs a license > for that. And if that license says: > > > > > 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > > > > acknowledgment: > > > > "This product includes PHP software, freely available from > > > > <http://www.php.net/software/>". > > then he's forced to lie if he just distributes the one package. That is not true. Read carefully the change in wording that they introduced: "This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>," which would be absolutely true, even in the distribution of a single package. Charles -- Doesn't Kiss you Like she useter? Perhaps she's seen A smoother rooster!! Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1950/doesnt
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