Re: Updating the PHP license

Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> Mon, 27 May 2024 09:57:42 -0500

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> On May 27, 2024, at 09:17, McCoy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, the current PHP license has some (IMHO) minor issues with drafting, and is non-reusable, and has an advertising clause (clause 6) which means it is generally not particularly useful for many users and is not reusable for other projects. Switching to BSD-3-Clause therefore seems like a good idea.
> 
> You'd probably want to avail yourself of the option of voluntarily retiring PHP 3.01 when you make the switch.

Deprecating the PHP license is part of the proposal.

Cheers,
Ben

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