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

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Sun Mar 8 17:45:00 UTC 2020


On 3/5/20 1:25 PM, Ben Ramsey wrote:
> For this reason, the PHP License should still be considered a *non-reusable license*, to discourage other projects from adopting it, since it contains clauses that cannot be enforced and are even false when applied to other projects.
> 
> Within the extension repository and PHP project itself, it may be helpful for us (the PHP project) to actively discourage use of this license for anything that will not be owned by the PHP Group.

It feels like the license should carry a page header explaining this in
our license catalog.  Most devs aren't going to read this discussion.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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