Re: Re: cvs: php4 / LICENSE

From: Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 02:50:26 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: cvs: php4 / LICENSE
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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. -- [1] http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/gallery/usa2002/ -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/

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