Re: NGScan - technical explanation
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:43:43PM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 21:38 9/7/2001, Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> > as long as the (perception of the) Zend License stopps him
> > from submitting it to the ZendEngine he has no other choice
> > than to put it somewhere where he feels comfortable with it.
>
> Yes, but if he puts it in PHP, it also has to be comfortable with other
> people. I'm pretty uncomfortable with this structural mess.
you cut a few lines of my mail that were important: i could
see a need for a non-QPL scanner.
>
> > besides that i can actually think of one or two usages for
> > a scanner in PHP which is not QPL. for exacle that reason the
> > your DOMXML sample is void - if we had a better DOMXML under
> > the same license we would use the better one.
>
> Can you share your thoughts as to how exactly GPL scanner built into PHP in
> an odd way would improve your world for the better? Remember, the scanner
> is already there, you can use it if you think it's useful. We're arguing
> on whether it should be plugged into PHP in a backwards way or not.
the current sources say it's under the PHP-License.
tc
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