> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:40 AM > To: Tamer Higazi > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about PHP Licence and it's future! > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 06:50 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > > Hi! > > I have asked myself a question. After I saw, that SAP will no more > > release future Versions of their open source Database MaxDB under the > > GPL License, I have asked myself either if this could happen with PHP. > > > > Who owns PHP? Is it Zend Technologies or the PHP Group itself? "Who" is > > the PHP Group and what makes the PHP Group? > > > > Who guaranties that future Versions of PHP stays open source and are > > being released under the Terms of the General Public Licenses? > > > > Can future Versions from one day to the other no more being released > > under the GPL, only under a closed source license? Let us say, PHP would > > be distributed for several architectures only in binary forms and the > > PECL modules stay open source. > > > > These questions are for me very importand according to an commercial > > product which will be planed, designed, written and sold commercially. > > > > We are pendling between Ruby, Python and PHP5. Only the point "written" > > is unclear. > > It doesn't matter. The PHP code as it is has been released under the PHP > License. This means if the future versions were ever released under > another license that was exclusionary, then there is still the > opportunity to fork code released under the PHP license. Heck you can > fork the PHP project now if you felt you could get the ball rolling with > enough momentum for acceptance. If beleive the hardened PHP project is > considered a fork despite the fact it generally keeps full compatibility > while adding security enhancements. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > .------------------------------------------------------------. > | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | > :------------------------------------------------------------: > | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | > | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | > | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | > | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | > | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | > `------------------------------------------------------------'
Rob, Are you sure you can fork the *current* PHP version??? The hardened PHP project still complains with the PHP license I think. I don't think the current PHP version can be forked, you can fork PHP 3, but not PHP 5 for example. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but it doesn't matter, I don't think PHP will change its license in a substantial way, it wouldn't be profitable to anybody on the long run (including Zend) and everyone would start switching to, say, RoR. Just my uninformed and honest opinion. Regards, Rob (Other Rob that is actually called Andrés) Andrés Robinet | Lead Developer | BESTPLACE CORPORATION 5100 Bayview Drive 206, Royal Lauderdale Landings, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 | TEL 954-607-4207 | FAX 954-337-2695 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | MSN Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | SKYPE: bestplace | Web: bestplace.biz | Web: seo-diy.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
