Re: JSON inclusion in core

At 05:17 PM 1/20/2006, Omar Kilani wrote:

Rasmus, Marcus,

Friday, January 20, 2006, 8:31:58 PM, you wrote:

pecl/json is a rather simple extension with no external deps (it bundles the small library it uses). The JSON format is stable with no real possibility of changing basically by definition, and I see its use exploding this year. There is also talk to a JSON Request object being added to browsers and if that happens we need to support that natively much like we support url-encoded form data ending up directly in $_POST. I could see a $_JSON if browsers start sending this. But, as an initial step how about we bundle pecl/json in the next release?

There is an issue with the fact that it is LGPL'ed. But perhaps we can work with Omar to put at least the extension part under the PHP license when bundled with PHP.

I don't care for the lib itself whether we bundle or not. The extension should however change to PHP License just like XmlWriter needed to change.

I've modified the license back to the PHP license in cvs. The reason I switched to the LGPL in the first place is so that Debian would allow inclusion of the package. :)

Ah OK. Please be sure to also change the license of the library itself. As far as Debian is concerned, you'll be in the same boat as PHP which is an OK place to be in as far as I'm concerned :) Andi