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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 07:01:38 +0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Rogue Wave Software acquires enterprise PHP leader Zend
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Oct 7, 2015 12:42 AM, "David Zuelke" <dz@heroku.com> wrote:
>
> On 06.10.2015, at 19:28, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The license cannot be changed without approvals of every contributor
> > to date. I very much doubt they will. And to make that point clear for
> > me, if they do and come with anything but the PHP license, I can
> > already say that I won't accept it.
>
> First, a license change may be necessary from their side in case "Zend
Technologies Ltd" ceases to exist.
>
> Second, never say never. The PHP and Zend licenses are just BSD licenses
with a few more or less irrelevant (to the code, the project, and its
future) additional sections about the use of the word "PHP" in product
names and that you must under no circumstance feed an Elephpant spinach on
the last Friday of the month or something like that.
>
> So a switch to "pure" BSD, for example, probably wouldn't be a big deal,
even to you, would it?

Last word on the matter for now  (because it does not matter much ;), yes
it will be a big deal. I am strongly in favor of one come license for the
core.

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