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PHP License Finally Approved By OSI

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 3, 2003 @05:58AM 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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What technicallity? by Gaima · 2003-09-03 06:42 · Score: 2, Interesting

So what was this small technical issue that was fixed?
The "article" wasn't exactly informative.
Re:From the article by mbadolato · 2003-09-03 07:14 · Score: 3, Interesting

It has to be the case. The article also states that you can not use PHP in the name of a product, which wuold mean a lot of free products (IE phpMyAdmin) would need to change their names, if the rule in fact applied to products that use PHP as the language.