nusphere-hammer-blow-thanks-rasmus

Dear Sirs,

We are  NuSphere Corporation  - the owners of PHP DBG, php debugger
extension.

It has come to our attention that you are using the name "php dbg" for your
PHP extension in forthcoming PHP 5.6. We would like to point out that the
name "PHP DBG" is copyrighted by NuSphere and Dmitri Dmitrienko for our
PHP debugger
extension, being in production for more than 13 years now.  NuSphere
extension is shown in phpinfo() output under the name PHP DBG with our
copyright.

We believe that your use of the name "PHP DBG" would be infringing our
intellectual property rights and also will create confusion with many
customers of NuSphere as well as many users of community version of
NuSphere's PHP DBG distributed at http://www.php-debugger.com/dbg/

Given this we would like to request you to kindly rename your extension to
avoid the usage of PHP DBG or it's close derivatives. Your assistance with
this matter is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Board of NuSphere.

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The PHP license which clearly states:

  3. The name "PHP" must not be used to endorse or promote products
     derived from this software without prior written permission. For
     written permission, please contact [email protected].

You have not received such permission.

-Rasmus

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One other note. Nowhere on http://www.php-debugger.com/dbg/ is the name
"PHP DBG" ever mentioned. Your product is referred to as simply DBG,
probably to avoid violating the PHP license. I would have downloaded the
source code and checked further, but none of the download links on your
site work.

Also, some advice. This is probably not a fight you want to start.
"Company goes after PHP project over the use of the PHP name."
You are going to get clobbered in the court of public opinion.

-Rasmus

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