Re: cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4
| From: | Emiliano | Date: | Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:53:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4 | ||
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Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >MySQL access functions were in PHP long before it went open source. I'm
> >not saying that Midgard is on the same level of general usefullness
> >but just that the fact that there's an organization behind it
> >doesn't change it's licensing.
>
> MySQL was always opensource. It was perhaps not opensource(tm), but it was
> opensource, before people came along and put rules on what opensource means.
OK, substitute OCI8, the argument stands.
> I tend to agree to Colin's statement. I don't see the big added value (to
> everyone involved) in distributing midgard alongside PHP, and one of the
> reasons PEAR was born was for such extensions exactly.
Not a problem for me. But how is PEAR being made available, then?
Emile