Re: Zend and PHP

> Zend Technologies' retains the ownership of the OpenSource Zend engine, > which is the beast that makes PHP 4.0 tick; So the Zend source code is available in the source version of the download correct? Is it under a license where it can be used in other open source projects? Thanks, Nick Henderson on 5/24/00 2:32 PM, Zeev Suraski at zeev@zend.com wrote: > At 21:43 24/05/2000 , Leon Mergen wrote: >> What is the affiliation? Is it one big company? Or are they just cooperating? > > PHP is an opensource project; It's published by the PHP Group, which is an > independent, not-for-profit group of people that works on developing PHP > (it doesn't include all of the developers who work on PHP). > At some point it'll be replaced by the PHP Association, which is an actual > legal entity, which will have the same role. > > Zend Technologies is a company that focuses on PHP related development. It > was founded by Andi Gutmans and myself, both of which are members of the > PHP Group. > > Zend Technologies' retains the ownership of the OpenSource Zend engine, > which is the beast that makes PHP 4.0 tick; However it licensed it to the > PHP Group for use inside PHP with no strings attached, and in a > non-revokable manner. PHP remains completely free and OpenSource. > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ >