Re: license issues
Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
> At 01:45 29/06/99 , Jim Winstead wrote:
> >There is no reason we would need to contact anyone to release a version
> >of PHP under the PHP License only. Everyone already has that right
> >(minus the BC math junk), and we are no different in that respect than
> >anyone else. (It's forking the code, but when we fork the code,
> >the dual-licensed version will simply die unless someone else picks it
> >up and continues on with it.)
>
> I doubt this would stand in court (not that I expect it to have to, but
> still). If someone contributed code to PHP knowing it can be distributed
> under the GPL, and it can no longer be distributed under the GPL, it's
> changing the license. It doesn't really matter whether there was a second
> license it can be distributed under. It's analogous to a license that has
> two clauses, that you have to comply with either (a) or (b). We're
> essentially removing (a) - that's obviously changing the license.
It can still be distributed under the GPL, since we can't take away
the rights have with code they already have in their hands. We would
simply be doing new development under only one license. I don't see
anything that would obligate us to do otherwise.
Jim
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