Re: Proposal for license change
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Sharon Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for license change
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 1, 2, 3. Zend?
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> Zend does not own PHP. And the waste majority of contributors do not
> even work for Zend.
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> 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.
>>
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> Well, even for the latter there are issues. Let alone the v3 and *GPL
> licenses, which create even more confusions.
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> 6. [email protected] may license the mark unconditionally for licensees to
>> achieve the same effect as "removing the clause". The mark license would be
>> for copyright, so there would be no conflict with the trademark ("PHP®").
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> And how do you finance it? World wild?
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> I'd like to respond to question of who owns PHP with some thoughts that I
> trust are germane to the topic.
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> Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate
> sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by
> Canonical? If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it,
> wouldn't it be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't
> the issue of acquiring a trademark then be feasible?
>
> -- Sharon
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And if the company's shareholders decide they want PHP to go in a certain
direction, what then? I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea. It just
makes me really, really nervous. I'm not sure a trademark and funding
would be worth giving-up our independence.
--Kris
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