Re: svn: /php/php-benchmarks/trunk/ benchweb/config.php benchweb/deploy.php benchweb/functions.php
benchweb/installers/phpbb/bench/LoremIpsum.class.php benchweb/installers/phpbb/bench/Post.php benchweb/installers/phpbb/bench/Record.php bench

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 18:04, Paul Biggar<paul.biggar@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. And the same thing applies to any other project. If the work has already been made by someone it is very annoying that we cannot use that work due to GPL restrictions. It has nothing to do with benchmarking or anything. Its simply that we need the code to not be GPL. >> 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 The "original decision" probably predates internals@, try php-dev@, pear-dev@ also has thorough posts about this. -Hannes