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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 01:49:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for license change
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

please don't top post - makes it harder to follow the discussion.

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 06:11 +0700, musicdenotation@gmail.com wrote:
> 1, 2, 3. Zend?

Nope.

(well 3 (funding) they could, if they want, which I don't know and don't
care; if there would be interest in going through that bureaucracy this
would be solvable ... but I don't see such interest in the contributors
community, I know there wasn't some years ago, maybe that changed, while
I have strong doubts)

> 4, 5. GPL compatibility is for users to use PHP in a GPL-licensed
> project, not for PHP developers to include GPL-licensed code in their
> PHP project.

This always goes both ways. And mind: Even if we would strike this out
of the PHP License you couldn't use PHP in GPL software easily. see i.e.
the spprintf case I mentioned, or other places (see README.REDIST.BINS
for a start) where we use foreign code. This would need to be replaced
to become GPL-compatible.

> 6. group@php.net may license the mark unconditionally for licensees to
> achieve the same effect as "removing the clause".

This becomes a complicated legal debate, especially while observing
international copyright and related law. There is no formal copyright
assignment. An interpretation is that currently code is donated under
PHP License terms. Significant (or actually even any) changes might void
that.


johannes