{"id":"PHP-3.01","title":"PHP License v3.01","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models version 3.01 of the PHP licence, the successor of the PhpLicense30 record. It is a BSD style licence with two name clauses and a mandatory acknowledgement in redistributions. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant reads \"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met\", so the record carries the BSD permission set: reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Clause 3 states 'The name \"PHP\" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission' and clause 4 bars the word from product names, so dalicc:promote is a prohibition. Clause 5 ends \"No one other than the PHP Group has the right to modify the terms applicable to covered code created under this License\", which is modelled as a dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibition.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Clauses 1 and 2 give cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive. Clause 6 requires that \"Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment\", which is modelled as a dalicc:addStatement duty on odrl:distribute. The existing PhpLicense30 record instead prohibits dalicc:addStatement, which reads the same term in the opposite sense; asserting both would have been reported by the consistency check as a duty that can never be discharged.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:PromotionSpecification","description":"The exact acknowledgement of clause 6 is kept in dalicc:PromotionSpecification, as on the PhpLicense30 record, and this is the wording that changed between 3.0 and 3.01: \"This product includes PHP software, freely available from <http://www.php.net/software/>\". Clauses 4 and 5 are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses, and the warranty and liability sentences are split into their own predicates.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Clause 5 lets the licensee keep using the version received or move to any later version published by the PHP Group. That is the same shape as the GNU or-later option, for which the review added dalicc:orLaterVersionOption as a property of the record; it is not applied here because the library uses it only on the four GNU records so far. Proposed action: apply dalicc:orLaterVersionOption \"true\" to this record and to PhpLicense30.","action":"proposed"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"major","field":"record","description":"Diffed against licensedata/licenses/PhpLicense30.ttl rather than read in full. The textual difference is confined to the acknowledgement wording of clause 6 and the name clause of clause 4. The modelled differences are deliberate: this record turns dalicc:addStatement from a prohibition into a duty, drops the unsupported cc:ShareAlike prohibition, drops the odrl:grantUse and dalicc:chargeLicenseFee permissions the text does not grant, and adds dalicc:ModifiedWorks. The existing record was not edited.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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 earlier reading wrote 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.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Python, PHP, Unicode and W3C","port_of":null,"variant_kind":"version","notes":"The disclaimer uses the typewriter quotation marks of the original (``AS IS''), which are reproduced verbatim."}