It should be noted, that the PHP Group is not allowed to give anyone the right to use PHP in it's product name.
PHP Group doesn't need to give anyone this right, anyone already *has* this right, as long as this name is not trademarked (which it is not AFAIK) and the anyone does not use PHP code belonging to PHP Group. Even if said anyone does use PHP code, PHP Group can not give or take their right to name their product as they wish. However, PHP Group can control the distribution of the PHP code that belongs to it, so PHP Group could say "either you ask us to name the product or you drop our code and code derived from it from your distribution, because you don't have the right to do so".
If they do so they violating the Open Source Definition http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php#5 Any kind of discrimination against anyone is not allowed. Giving some
I wonder what "discrimination" means in your world. In my world, this clause means that OS license can not put forth specific personal or group conditions for receiving the license, such as belonging or not belonging to ethnicity, race, religion, sex, political party, etc. group. Of course, PHP Group never did anything of a kind. Limiting the user of the code from using group's name for promoting their code is in no way "discrimination", unless you speak the language where this word means something entirely different from what it means in English.
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