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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is this what Stefan Esser was referring to ...?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

On 1/23/07, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > # greg@chiaraquartet.net / 2007-01-23 08:59:46 -0600:
> >
> >> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >>
> >>> php.net distributes programs that violate the PHP license: e. g. PHPUnit
> >>> or PHPDocumentor (see http://pecl.php.net).  If php.net is ok with
> >>> ignoring the license terms (and has been for several years), does the
> >>> license still mean sh!t?
> >>>
> >> Um wrong,  phpDocumentor *EXPLICITLY* wrote php group and asked for
> >> permission to use php when we first switched to the php license years
> >> ago.  Get your facts straight before posting rumors.
> >>
> >
> > If I recall the discussions from several years ago correctly, the provisions
> > to protect "PHP" were meant to prevent proliferation of programs written in PHP
> > and called PHPthis of ThatPHP.  So even if a special deal has allowed you to
> > use "PHP" to endorse or promote PHPDocumentor, it is against the spirit of the
> > license if not against the letter.
> >
> > I'd like to get permission to use PHP in the name of my MuchBetterDocumentor,
> > where do I apply? ;)  http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php#5
> Hi,
>
> If you would take a look at section 3 and 4 of
> http://php.net/license/3_01.txt

and 6. should matter too:

  6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
     acknowledgment:
     "This product includes PHP software, freely available from
     <http://www.php.net/software/>".

phpDocumentor is distributed through php.net (pear).

--Pierre