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Re: [LUG] PHP not open source

 

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:21:35AM +0100, Tom Potts wrote:
> There are some comments about PHP not being freee in this article here:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090414063043335

It’s free. It’s just not copyleft.

The licence for php 4 and 5 is http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt,
which is a BSD-style non-copyleft free software licence. It’s not
compatible with the GPL because of restrictions on the use of the name
“PHP”, but otherwise free. Claims to the contrary are just FUD, IMO.

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