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====== Trademark Concerns and Problems with PHP ====== | ====== Trademark Concerns and Problems with PHP ====== | ||
- | PHP is as general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development and often used in those contexts. Nevertheless it is not common known that the licensing behind the software is more out of a problem and making it more than only a lightweight issue packaging this for a free and libre operating-system. | + | PHP is as general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development and often used in those contexts. Nevertheless it is not common known that the licensing behind the software is more out of a problem and making it more than only a lightweight issue packaging this for a free and libre operating-system. |
===== What is the problem? ===== | ===== What is the problem? ===== | ||
- | Starting in the year 2000, the PHP authors have decided to remove the option to use PHP under the General Public License, so with beginning from PHP version 4. This left users with only the PHP License as an option, which is non-copyleft, | + | Starting in the year 2000, the PHP authors have decided to remove the option to use PHP under the General Public License, so with beginning from PHP version 4. This left users with only the PHP License as an option, which is non-copyleft, |
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4. Products derived from this software may not be called " | 4. Products derived from this software may not be called " | ||
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it "PHP Foo" or " | it "PHP Foo" or " | ||
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+ | Those restrictions specifically related to use of the PHP name. Ultimately, such licensing makes extra work for system-distributions and operating-systems and creates uncertainty for people wishing to modify PHP - as they navigate a license that awkwardly pulls in a trademark policy as part of it. | ||
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+ | In the whole outcome and as result **PHP violates the freedom to redistribute without “explicit” approval**. | ||
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+ | So if we would do individual modifications corresponding our mission-statement, | ||
+ | ===== Solutions ===== | ||
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+ | * **Rebranding** the entire language to avoid the trademark restriction. However, we would need **patches** to adapt all **PHP-dependant applications** to the rebranded version of PHP, since it is a programming language. | ||
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+ | * Getting PHP to change its trademark agreement to allow modifications on the PHP binary for any purpose in respect of [[https:// | ||
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+ | * Removal of PHP as the project is not following free, libre software. | ||
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+ | Hyperbola has taken the decision to keep PHP complete out of the repositories, | ||
+ | ===== Outcome and decisions for Hyperbola ===== | ||
- | Those restrictions specifically related | + | The Hyperbola-project decided |