RE: [PHP] Question about PHP Licence and it's future!

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrés Robinet [mailto:agrobinet@bestplace.biz] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:41 AM > To: 'Robert Cummings'; 'Tamer Higazi' > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Question about PHP Licence and it's future! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@interjinn.com] > > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:40 AM > > To: Tamer Higazi > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about PHP Licence and it's future! > > > > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 06:50 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I have asked myself a question. After I saw, that SAP will no more > > > release future Versions of their open source Database MaxDB under the > > > GPL License, I have asked myself either if this could happen with PHP. > > > > > > Who owns PHP? Is it Zend Technologies or the PHP Group itself? "Who" is > > > the PHP Group and what makes the PHP Group? > > > > > > Who guaranties that future Versions of PHP stays open source and are > > > being released under the Terms of the General Public Licenses? > > > > > > Can future Versions from one day to the other no more being released > > > under the GPL, only under a closed source license? Let us say, PHP > would > > > be distributed for several architectures only in binary forms and the > > > PECL modules stay open source. > > > > > > These questions are for me very importand according to an commercial > > > product which will be planed, designed, written and sold commercially. > > > > > > We are pendling between Ruby, Python and PHP5. Only the point "written" > > > is unclear. > > > > It doesn't matter. The PHP code as it is has been released under the PHP > > License. This means if the future versions were ever released under > > another license that was exclusionary, then there is still the > > opportunity to fork code released under the PHP license. Heck you can > > fork the PHP project now if you felt you could get the ball rolling with > > enough momentum for acceptance. If beleive the hardened PHP project is > > considered a fork despite the fact it generally keeps full compatibility > > while adding security enhancements. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > -- > > .------------------------------------------------------------. > > | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com > > | > > :------------------------------------------------------------: > > | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | > > | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | > > | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | > > | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | > > | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | > > `------------------------------------------------------------' > > Rob, > > Are you sure you can fork the *current* PHP version??? The hardened PHP > project > still complains with the PHP license I think. I don't think the current PHP I meant *complies* not *complains* sorry (lol, I really need that cup of coffee now) Regards, Rob