* Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > As of this moment, if Oracle buys Zend, they could effectively kill PHP > ... the core engine that PHP is built around is a Zend engine, so if they > were to revoke the license for that, PHP would be dead ... kinda like > MySQL with InnoDB ... now, there was talk at one point time with > replacying that engine with Parrot, so I'm not sure how hard/long it would > take for them to do so if Zend got pulled out from under them ... Has there been any actual test (ie: court case) of a piece of software being released under an open source (BSD, GPL, whatever) license and then the licensor revoking that and stopping everyone from distributing the code? Personally, I have no idea at all if this is something which can be done and upheld or not and I'm kind of curious about it. That would be a very different (and much more difficult for the rest of us) situation from releasing future versions as closed-source only or just not releasing new versions. Thanks, Stephen
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