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PHP License Finally Approved By OSI

Posted by timothy on from the and-there-was-much-rejoicing dept.

O'Reilly's new news site is reporting that PHP's new license, v3.0, has finally been approved by the OSI as meeting the open source definition. There was a small technical issue that prevented it in previous versions.

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  1. Funny that by olivermoffat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    opensource.org has been running PHP all this time

  2. What was the technical issue? by Magic+Thread · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm interested to know what this technical issue was, because the PHP license 3.0 is listed on the FSF site as a free software license already (and the page hasn't been modified since August 16). Free software licenses are automatically open source as well, aren't they? I suppose the FSF could have just approved the new version faster, but then I'd expect to see some sort of note indicating that the old version was not free software. No such note exists.