Re: readline extension status?

Thanks for the info. Torben Zeev Suraski writes: > Yes, it's (probably) true. Richard Stallman decided to put PHP under a > magnifying glass as far as licenses are concerned, and he asked us to > remove the readline extension because readline is GPLd. I told him that > law-wise, what he says has no grounds (we're not distributing anything with > the readline library, but rather, distributing code that is compatible with > it), but since the readline extension is fairly esoteric, we decided it'll > be best if we simply remove it, instead of getting into a fight with him. > > If the same thing happens again with a more 'fundamental' extension, we > won't give up that easily. > > We can expect the readline extension to be removed in the next release of > PHP. I can't say yet when this is going to happen... > > Zeev > > At 09:30 28/12/2000, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > >Is it true that the readline extension will be removed from the PHP > >distribution and packaged or distributed separately? I remember talk > >of this in the past weeks (something about license incompatability) > >but I left most of my emails at home and didn't catch the outcome. > > > >If this is true, approx. when(ish) would it be expected to happen? > > > > > >-- > >+----------------------------------------------------------------+ > >|Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| > >|http://www.coastnet.com/~torben > >http://www.netmill.fi| > >|Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| > >+----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. > http://www.zend.com/ > -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+