[License-review] Request for Legacy Approval of PHP License 3.01

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Sun Mar 8 17:43:01 UTC 2020


On 3/6/20 2:38 PM, Ben Ramsey wrote:
> I’m having trouble finding any examples of licenses with placeholders similar to what we’re discussing here.
> 
> Apache 2.0 and the GPL both provide placeholders in their “how to apply the license to your work” sections, but these are for the purpose of allowing others to use the license for their software, not for the purpose of updating the text of the license in future revisions. They also do not provide placeholders for their URLs, so if their URLs change, then they would need to have those changes approved by the OSI.

I thought we were just talking about changes of URLs?  Which, IMHO,
should *always* be placeholders?

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Josh Berkus



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