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PHP Class for FileMaker Pro

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Many Macintosh users did not realize that there is a free PHP class called FX.php. You can download class here. http://www.fxforge.net/

I have also uploaded a free FX.php beginners guide, you can download it here:
http://www.fmwebschool.com/resources/php_basics.pdf

There is also a FileMaker PHP web only forum at:
http://fmwebschool.com/frm/index.php

I hope that you find this information interesting!
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Post by feyd »

You say it's free, yet there is no license in your source code. Nor can I find one on the sites you've provided.
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FX.php free PHP Class for FileMaker

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FX.php is free and has been free for over 5 years :) Here is the exact download link:

http://www.fmwebschool.com/fxphp2.htm

There are over 30,000 people using FX.php :)
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Re: FX.php free PHP Class for FileMaker

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fmwebschool wrote:FX.php is free and has been free for over 5 years :)
Unless it is *freedom software*, as in, is under an opensource license, then your post is a press release/advertisement - even if the software is no cost.

Please specify what the license is for the code. Is it under the GPL, BSDL, or a non-free software license?
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After doing some digging, I found an apparent license for it. Unfortunately, it's not an open source license that I know of, nor does it appear to conform to the "standard" open source licenses we are accustomed to.

Unfortunately, this particular file was not called out in any code, but only referenced in ABOUT_THE_FILES.txt. Here's the text of the license.
Licenses/ArtisticLicense.rtf wrote:The Artistic License

Preamble

The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.

Definitions:

* "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification.
* "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder.
* "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package.
* "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
* "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
* "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they received it.


1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.

2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following:


a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.

b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.

c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version.

d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.


4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:


a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version.

b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications.

c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.

d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.


5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.

6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package.

7. C, perl, or PHP subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not be considered part of this Package.

8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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feyd wrote:After doing some digging, I found an apparent license for it. Unfortunately, it's not an open source license that I know of, nor does it appear to conform to the "standard" open source licenses we are accustomed to.

Unfortunately, this particular file was not called out in any code, but only referenced in ABOUT_THE_FILES.txt. Here's the text of the license.
Its the license used for the old versions of Perl.

From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-lis ... ticLicense
(Original) Artistic License

We cannot say that this is a free software license because it is too vague; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear. We urge you to avoid using it, except as part of the disjunctive license of Perl.

The problems are matters of wording, not substance. There is a revised version of the Artistic License (dubbed "Artistic License 2.0") which is a free software license, and even compatible with the GNU GPL. This license is being considered for use in Perl 6. If you are thinking of releasing a program under the Artistic License, please do investigate other GPL-compatible, Free Software licensing options listed here first.

The Artistic License 2.0 is currently in a draft phase with The Perl Foundation. FSF is in active negotiations with the Perl Foundation regarding the license, and we look forward to a result which will benefit all users.
The FSF does not consider it a Free license, although the OSI does consider it an OpenSource license.
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FX.php licensing

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This is becoming silly, I simply wanted to let Mac users knw that there was a free PHP class that could be used with FileMaker since there are over 11 million users of FileMaker. Anyway I just copied the licenses out of the FX.php download folder for you.


The Artistic License is included

Preamble

The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.

Definitions:

* "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification.
* "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder.
* "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package.
* "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
* "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
* "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they received it.


1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.

2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following:


a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.

b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.

c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version.

d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.


4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:


a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version.

b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications.

c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.

d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.


5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.

6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package.

7. C, perl, or PHP subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not be considered part of this Package.

8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

_________________________

Also here is the PHP license included with FX.php
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The PHP License, version 3.0
Copyright (c) 1999 - 2005 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.

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 group@php.net.

4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor
may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission
from group@php.net. You may indicate that your software works in
conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling
it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo"

5. The PHP Group may publish revised and/or new versions of the
license from time to time. Each version will be given a
distinguishing version number.
Once covered code has been published under a particular version
of the license, you may always continue to use it under the terms
of that version. You may also choose to use such covered code
under the terms of any subsequent version of the license
published by the PHP Group. No one other than the PHP Group has
the right to modify the terms applicable to covered code created
under this License.

6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
acknowledgment:
"This product includes PHP, freely available from
<http://www.php.net/>".

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT TEAM ``AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PHP
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INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
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SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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The PHP Group can be contacted via Email at group@php.net.

For more information on the PHP Group and the PHP project,
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This product includes the Zend Engine, freely available at
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Re: FX.php licensing

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fmwebschool wrote:This is becoming silly, I simply wanted to let Mac users knw that there was a free PHP class that could be used with FileMaker since there are over 11 million users of FileMaker.
It's not silly. We have rules about posting adverts. Because we dislike advertising, we take all ads seriously. That means knowing which license(s) it falls under, identifying whether they are in fact Open Source licenses as our rules mandate. Since your license falls inside the OSI's realm of accepted Open Source license, you won't get any further issues from myself on this particular issue.

If you don't like it, I'm happy to remove your posts and your user if you wish.
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Yes, I can understand that you take advertising seriously. But as a first time poster to your forum, I was attacked and not in a friendly way. I would have and did gladly post the information for you. I run two successful forums of my own and have never approached anyone that posted like this.

So yes, to me it did feel a little silly, since I would have been more than happy to post the licensing.

Code: Select all

If you don't like it, I'm happy to remove your posts and your user if you wish.
That is truly sad...you should not be "happy" to remove someone that is offering information that may be helpful to others. [/quote]
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Adverts as a first post is more often than not a bad sign here. Sorry you feel that I was harsh. It doesn't change the need to know upfront what license something falls under.
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I apologize as well. I hope that I can become a welcome contributor to this forum. If any individuals reading these post do use FileMaker and Macintosh, please let me know if I can answer any questions.
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Post by Luke »

**Just a friendly note to the OP**

The mods/admins here may seem a little harsh or rude at first, but the more time you spend here, you realize they just follow the rules and it makes for a very tidy and easy to use forum. Don't be put off by feyd... he's one of the most helpful posters here.

EDIT: That better Jcart? :D
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The mods/admins here seem a little harsh or rude at first
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