Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP3] Help craft PHP description

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote: > > Zend's great, but we have to keep in mind that it's one of the first of _many_ > > possible closed source plug-ins for PHP, no? Mentioning them by name might be > > a bit unfair to the other closed-source competition. > There's basically no single thing which is called 'Zend', but what people > mean usually when they say 'Zend' is the Zend engine, which is opensource, > and is the foundation for PHP 4.0 (it's not a plugin, and can't be > replaced, except with a 100% compatible engine, which is unlikely to be > written). Ah. To me it means Zeev, and Andi, and their works as a whole. "Zend" is both open source, *and* closed source. > The PHP license itself is in fact not an FSF-friendly license, as it's a > BSD style license. I don't accept the FSF's ownership over the word > 'free', though (it would be a funny contradiction), so I'm quite > comfortable with saying that PHP is free, because it is. Well, they're happy to let you use the word "free" too, provided that you include all prior sauthors of the word "free", don't charge for the word "free", and any work based on the word "free" must also be, well, "free". ;-) -Bop -- Brought to you from iBop the iMac, a MacOS, Win95, LinuxPPC machine, which is currently in MacOS land. Your bopping may vary.