Re: How php works?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:20:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How php works? | ||
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On Sat, December 16, 2006 6:24 am, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:58 +0800, Kai Xiang wrote:
>> On 12/16/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>> > (*)
>> > Actually, if somebody wants to embed the ZE inside of something
>> other
>> > than PHP, then I think Zend expects to get paid for that.
>
> I don't think so... the PHP and Zend licenses are quite liberal with
> very few restrictions. Namely that you don't call your software php or
> use php in the name (something many packages seem to ignore (either
> that
> or they got permission)). The Zend license is practically a clone of
> the
> PHP license with a search and replace for PHP to Zend :) There's
> nothing
> that says you have to pay to embed it in your own software. That said,
> if you make a product that uses either the PHP or Zend engine and
> makes
> oodles of money, I think you should feel somewhat morally obliged to
> give back in some way.
Put it this way: In 2000, if somebody wanted to embed the ZE in a
commercial product, Zend was planning on charging for it. I dunno
what their license for the ZE reads like today, and I wasn't
authorized to speak on this topic for them then, much less now.
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