Re: Proposal for license change

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:06 -0700, Sharon Levy wrote: > Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate > sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by > Canonical? If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it, > wouldn't it be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't the > issue of acquiring a trademark then be feasible? Now PHP has multiple companies supporting it. Aside from previously mentioned Zend we have or had active contributors from industry giants as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google or Facebook (certainly incomplete list) and tons of smaller companies and individuals who actually use PHP. All on the same level. Such even if some of the decide to not support PHP anymore there are enough shoulders to keep it running. Having a for-benefit corporation might give paid developers who are focused and might add predictability but a) we partly have that, b) that drives away contributors ("why should I give them my code for free if they make benefits out of it?") What could work is a non profit foundation (US 501(c) or German e.V. like KDE or whatever) but then the question is: What, aside from bureaucracy, is the *actual* benefit? Over the last ten ears I have been involved that discussion came up multiple times but I've never seen a good answer outweighing the trouble. johannes