Re: license issues

From: Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: Re: license issues
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> Before we can modify the PHP license (e.g., modify any clause in our 
> license or drop the GPL), we must get the approval of every single person 
> who've contributed code to the source tree, don't we?  After all, these 
> people contributed code knowing the license is X, and now we want to change 
> it to X' (slight modifications to the PHP license) or even Y (if we drop 
> the GPL). 

Correct, that is how you change a license.  The same will have to be done
if PHP4 is released with a license that is in any way different from
PHP3's license since most of these same people have code in PHP4.

-Rasmus




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