Re: svn: /php/php-benchmarks/trunk/ benchweb/config.php benchweb/deploy.php benchweb/functions.php
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Hannes Magnusson<bjori@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 17:15, Paul Biggar<paul.biggar@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Pierre, >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Pierre Joye<pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Paul Biggar<paul.biggar@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> We include complete GPL programs. We do not try to use GPL code in >>>> programs we write ourselves. >>> >>> The license itself is a pain >> >> How so? > > Lets not go into religious, or I think A is better then B, discussions here. I'm not advocating for or against the GPL. I'm just saying that benchmarks take work and are hard to come by. It would be simpler for us (people working on benchmarks) if some benchmarks were not banned because of their license. > The fact is the PHP project doesn't not allow GPL in SVN, in whichever > module. php-src, pear, pecl, webs, whatever. Please respect that. I'm trying to ask if an exception could be made, since we have a good reason to do so. > Besides, we have plenty of in-house projects that could just as well > be used for this web-app-benchmarking. That would be ideal. I know this was mooted before, but I'm not sure what happened? Alexander? > If you want to dig into the archives and see the various reasonings > for that over the years, feel free. I looked through php-internals for the word GPL, and found some cases where extensions and PECL libraries had to be removed because they were GPL. Naturally, C libraries must be linked which triggers the GPL. I found no discussion on having PHP source code which is GPL. I also couldn't find where the rule was made that there would be no GPL code in CVS. I'd be happy to look closer if you have more specific suggestions. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com