PHP License 3.0

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

   The content review of 2026-09-15 added 2 clause texts and 1 identification detail and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, permitted relicensing with the notice as a duty, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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   15 changes

   • added dalicc:PromotionSpecification "6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP, freely available from <http://www.php.net/>\"."

     Review finding Clause 4, the naming restriction, was not recorded. Added, quoted.

   • added dalicc:additionalClauses "4. 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\""

     Review finding Clause 4, the naming restriction, was not recorded. Added, quoted.

   • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

     Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

   • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

     Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

   • added spdx:licenseId "PHP-3.0"

     Review finding Added PHP-3.0. Verified rather than assumed: cc:legalcode already points at the Open Source Initiative page that the SPDX entry lists under seeAlso, dct:alternative is "PHP-3.0", and the fetched text is version 3.0.

   • added dalicc:LiabilityLimitation "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • changed dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED."

     was dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • added dalicc:orLaterVersionOption "true"^^xsd:boolean

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement]

     was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • removed prohibition cc:ShareAlike

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • removed prohibition dalicc:addStatement

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 7: the record prohibited dalicc:addStatement although clause 6 requires a statement to be retained, and prohibited cc:ShareAlike without support. Clause 6 reads 'Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\"', which is the dalicc:advertisingAcknowledgement duty, and clause 5 lets the licensee move to any later version the PHP Group publishes.

   • added permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

   • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

   • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

     was prohibition dalicc:promote

     Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name "PHP" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission."

   • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

     Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

2. Version 1

   The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.