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maintainers have had a long-standing discussion (since at least 2005) about the validity of the PHP license. Expressed concerns include that the license "contains statements about the software it covers that are specific to distributing PHP itself", which, for other software than PHP itself therefore
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Debian has a specific policy for the license (and requires a statement in debian/copyright file when it is used): "The PHP license must only be used for PHP and PHP add-ons."
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scripting language is released. The PHP License is designed to encourage widespread adoption of the source code. Redistribution is permitted in
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Alphabetized list of open source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
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Text of the PHP License 3.01 as approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
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Software license under which the PHP scripting language is released
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form with or without modifications, with some caveats.
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enforcement as being the reason for dropping it. The
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PHP license
Publisher
SPDX
Debian FSG compatible
FSF
approved
OSI
approved
GPL compatible
Copyleft
secure.php.net/license/
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open-source license
PHP
source
binary
dual license
GNU General Public License
copyleft
Zend Engine
open source license
Open Source Initiative
copyleft
free software
Free Software Foundation
GPL-incompatible
Debian
Free and open-source software portal
Apache License
Software using the PHP license

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