[$] A PHP license change is imminent
Date:
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:00:03 +0000
Description:
PHP's licensing has been a source of confusion for some time. The project is, currently, using two licenses that cover different parts of the code base:
PHP v3.01 for the
bulk of the code and Zend v2.0 for code
in the Zend directory. Much has changed
since the project settled on those licenses in 2006, and the need for custom licensing seems to have passed. An effort to simplify PHP's licensing, led by Ben Ramsey, is underway; if successful, the existing licenses will be deprecated
and replaced by the BSD
three-clause license. The PHP community is now voting on the license
update RFC through April4, 2026.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1063993/
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