Re: [PDO] Re: PDO 2: Request for Comments

On 29.01.2008, at 03:29, David Coallier wrote:

Ben Ramsey has suggested a rather sexy way of handling this CLA problem. I'll repeat it in case some missed it but briefly. PDO Core&Specs being not CLAd and the specific vendor drivers being CLAd. I believe this is a GREAT compromise and since the community don't seem to want to have to sign a CLA for PDO development, perhaps the vendor specific drivers could be also hosted elsewhere with their own bug reporting tools et al ? Considering what Bill mentioned about being able to write their own code on their sides (http://news.php.net/php.pdo/37) That means that in theory the vendors could have their specific drivers hosted on their boxes and we (the community) could implement our own PDO drivers and there wouldn't be any IP conflicts (Considering that no one stole code from anyone of course)

Yes, I think this idea does have some merit, though there are some challenges to overcome here too. Some on our side (syncing changes with the core PHP distribution, leveraging a proxy to feed php.net changes back to the external vendors) and some on their side (like accepting that the core of PDO and the specs are not CLA'ed). regards, Lukas