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Unclear or idiosyncratic licenses on projects can often be problematic for distributions. In particular, Debian seems to struggle with more of these license issues than most other distributions, ...

The PHP developer community is currently discussing a comprehensive license change. The aim is to replace the PHP and Zend licenses used to date with the standardized Modified BSD License. The ...

The vote in the core PHP team on new open-source licenses has begun. These are intended to create a uniform regulation. PHP Internals, the core members of the project, are currently voting on a new ...