Re: [License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-28 Thread Bruce Perens via License-discuss
We are not your lawyer, and you really should have one. Everything you get from this mailing list falls short of legal advice. Many of us are not admitted to the bar, and even the ones who are are not contracted to advise you. That said, it looks to me like you are within clause 5, but in your pla

Re: [License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-27 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 27, 2024, at 09:17, McCoy Smith 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 pro

Re: [License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-27 Thread McCoy Smith
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 goo

Re: [License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey
On May 18, 2024, at 19:21, Ben Ramsey wrote: Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentim

[License-discuss] Updating the PHP License

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey via License-discuss
Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: chan

[License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey via License-discuss
Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: chan