HUGE new RFC in PHP-land: Updating the somewhat messy and slightly unwieldy PHP license to BSD 3-clause.

news-web.php.net/php.internals

Alessandro Lai

@alessandrolai@phpc.social

oh wow! I would've expected that a license change would be nearly impossible with such a big project... Doesn't it require approval from all active contributors?

July 10, 2025 at 5:55:23 AM

@alessandrolai @pollita That's the thing. As the new licence grants the same rights to.contributors that's not needed. Only from "The PHP Group" and from Zend (Perforce)

@ramsey has done an incredible job preparing this PR! Thanks, Ben!

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