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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. Re:From the article by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Informative

    well.. i didn't rtfa..

    but have you thouhgt about that the php license is for the php runtime system, NOT for code you write _in_ php language?

    (i'm just pulling this out of my hat/ass)

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  2. Re:From the article by rRaminrodt · · Score: 3, Redundant

    After giving the licence a quick look-over, I'm pretty sure that applies to the language, not to things you write in the language.

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

    opensource.org has been running PHP all this time

  4. *sigh of relief* by Eneff · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am now authorized by my masters to use PHP.

  5. What technicallity? by Gaima · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So what was this small technical issue that was fixed?
    The "article" wasn't exactly informative.

    1. Re:What technicallity? by one9nine · · Score: 3, Funny

      SCO claimed they had the rights to recursive acronyms. It's all straightened out now.

  6. 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.

  7. Re:From the article by mbadolato · · 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.

  8. It's a Free Software license by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 3, Informative

    From FSFs license list:

    This license is used by most of PHP4. It is a non-copyleft free software license which is incompatible with the GNU GPL.

    We recommend that you not use this license for anything except PHP add-ons.


    Ciaran O'Riordan

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  9. The QingPL by yerricde · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a copyleft license that fits within an 80x25 box, try the Qing Public License.

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