[License-discuss] PHP License v3.01 comments

[cowan at ccil.org]

Rick Moen scripsit:


> Likewise (issue #2), because of the narrow focus of the drafters on the
> PHP product, the licence disclaimer is wrongly worded when the PHP
> Licence is used for any other codebase (including third-party add-ons to
> PHP).

I think the objection is that by copying the PHP license into a
codebase that isn't PHP, one is forced to utter a falsehood by
the terms of the license, one of which is "This is PHP".  But
I don't see any reason to think that when you are forced to copy
a license verbatim, you are necessarily standing behind any and all
statements in that license.

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