I have never read the PHP License before. But I'm surprised to read in The PHP Licence version 3.01 (the latest) that you cannot use the name "PHP" in your product name. But There are many scripts that use "PHP" in their name like phpmyadmin, phpbb, phpnuke, cakephp and many others. Are they all illegal ? do they have a written permission from group@php.net?
May be I have misunderstood! here is the text as-is from the PHP Licence:
I cannot understand it. Either people do not respect the PHP Licence or the PHP License has other meaning that I can't get it.
May be I have misunderstood! here is the text as-is from the PHP Licence:
Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission from group@php.net. You may indicate that your software works in conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo"
I cannot understand it. Either people do not respect the PHP Licence or the PHP License has other meaning that I can't get it.
03 Feb 2006 17:26:06
[Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP"]
Scripts writtent with PHP are not concerned.
03 Feb 2006 21:35:05
Fuck 'em.
I doubt it's even legally enforceable.
02 Dec 2006 03:58:37
I doubt any judges would understand the laws and technology involved . ' OR ' '<> '<br>"
24 Aug 2007 14:39:40
Is a script a product? I think yes, so it must be illegal. But what about PHPnuke, PHPbb, PHPMyAdmin and all the other "applications" having included "PHP" in its name. Thanks for the hint. I'll rename all my scripts...
26 Oct 2007 09:46:21
I think this is enforceable, and probably they will start the hunting down with small scale vendors. But I think it is unlikely to attck well established and free applications like 'PHPMyAdmin' etc. This is same as macromedia (lately adobe0 copyrighted the term 'swf'.