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<p>Kudos to the PHP community!</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/4/2026 8:19 AM, Ben Ramsey wrote:<br>
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Thanks, Nick!
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<div>On May 4, 2026, at 10:04, Nick Vidal
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Ben and the PHP community,
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<div>I really appreciate the effort to move this
forward. Sharing your blog post here to the mailing
list and also adding it to OSI's monthly newsletter:</div>
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<div><a
href="https://ben.ramsey.dev/blog/2026/05/the-php-license-simplified"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ben.ramsey.dev/blog/2026/05/the-php-license-simplified</a></div>
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<div>Warm regards,</div>
<div>Nick</div>
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11:59\u202fAM Ben Ramsey <<a
href="mailto:ben@benramsey.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">ben@benramsey.com</a>>
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On
behalf of the PHP Group, I am submitting notice of the
voluntary retirement of the PHP License 3.01.<br>
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I recently wrapped up a multi-year process, working
with the PHP Group, Zend Technologies, and the PHP
internals community to invoke clause 5 of the PHP
License 3.01[1] to adopt the Modified BSD License as
the new version of the PHP License.[2]<br>
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As of today, the PHP License 3.01 is no longer used by
PHP, and the PHP project discourages use of the
license for new works.<br>
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See also:<br>
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* <a href="https://www.php.net/license/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.php.net/license/</a><br>
* <a
href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/LICENSE"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/LICENSE</a><br>
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The PHP License 3.0 is listed on the OSI website as
superseded by the PHP License 3.01. Since 3.01 is
retired, 3.0 is also voluntarily retired. (The page
for 3.0 is stuck in a redirect loop: <a
href="https://opensource.org/license/php-3.0/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://opensource.org/license/php-3.0/</a>).<br>
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Since the process for voluntary retirement isn\u2019t
described on the OSI website, please let me know if
there\u2019s anything else you need from me to complete
this process.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ben<br>
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[1]: <a href="https://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt</a><br>
[2]: <a
href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update</a>
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