Re: Updating the PHP license

On Wed, 22 May 2024 23:13:13 -0500 Ben Ramsey wrote:

[...]
> I’ve updated the RFC according to your suggestions.

Good!   :-)
Thanks for taking the time to do so.

> You may find a diff of the changes here:
> 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update?do=diff&rev2%5B0%5D=1716433712&rev2%5B1%5D=1716437291&difftype=sidebyside 
> 
> Please let me know if you have any feedback on these changes.

After a short review, they look OK to me.

The only thing that I would emphasize more is: the PHP License, version
4.0 should not just have the text identical to the 3-clause BSD
license, it should *be* the 3-clause BSD license. In other words, the
PHP Group would not merely publish a new license with a text identical
to the text of another license: the PHP Group would *designate*[^NOTE]
the 3-clause BSD license as the new version of the PHP License (i.e.:
version 4.0).

[^NOTE]: or *elect*, or *adopt*, the most suitable word should be
    chosen by an English native speaker (which I am not) with legal
    training (which I do not have)...

I think that, this way, clause 5 of the PHP License, version 3.01,
would be triggered, but there would be no need to explicitly mention
"PHP License, version 4.0" in the source code of a project that decides
to upgrade its license (from PHP License, version 3.01 to its
successor, the 3-clause BSD license).
The reason would that "PHP License, version 4.0" would become an alias
of "3-clause BSD license"...

Similarly for the Zend License, of course.

This is how I see it, but, clearly, it has to be checked with someone
more knowledgeable than me about the legal aspects.


Bye.

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