Php license 3.0

But we would really prefer if people would come up with their own names independent of the PHP name. You are only trying to contribute to the PHP community.

That may be true, but by using the PHP name you are explicitly linking your efforts to those of the entire PHP development community and the years of work that has gone into the PHP project. Every time a flaw is found in one of the thousands of applications out there that call themselves "PHP-Something" the negative karma that generates reflects unfairly on the entire PHP project.

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