Re: Re: cvs: php4 / LICENSE
| From: | Sebastian Bergmann | Date: | Wed, 07 Aug 2002 02:50:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: cvs: php4 / LICENSE | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.dev |
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> I think this has been clarified enough times, don't you think?
Sorry, after reading the posting I replied to I did a quick scan
through the thread but obviously failed to find an answer (I was on
vacation the last two weeks [1]).
> If there is PHP licensed code in phpMyAdmin or PHP OpenTracker, then
> yes, they are forms of derived software. If they are simply written
> in PHP, then obviously not.
This wasn't clear to my jetlagged brain, sorry for bringing it up
again.
> Why is this so hard to understand?
It's not.
> My personal preference is that people don't put "PHP" in the names
> of even non-derived stuff because I think it also adds to the
> confusion, and at a more basic level I don't think the implementation
> language should be part of a package name. Why aren't these things
> simply called OpenTracker and MyAdmin?
In retrospect, I should have called phpOpenTracker something different,
yes.
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