On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 06:50 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi! > I have asked myself a question. After I saw, that SAP will no more > release future Versions of their open source Database MaxDB under the > GPL License, I have asked myself either if this could happen with PHP. > > Who owns PHP? Is it Zend Technologies or the PHP Group itself? "Who" is > the PHP Group and what makes the PHP Group? > > Who guaranties that future Versions of PHP stays open source and are > being released under the Terms of the General Public Licenses? > > Can future Versions from one day to the other no more being released > under the GPL, only under a closed source license? Let us say, PHP would > be distributed for several architectures only in binary forms and the > PECL modules stay open source. > > These questions are for me very importand according to an commercial > product which will be planed, designed, written and sold commercially. > > We are pendling between Ruby, Python and PHP5. Only the point "written" > is unclear. It doesn't matter. The PHP code as it is has been released under the PHP License. This means if the future versions were ever released under another license that was exclusionary, then there is still the opportunity to fork code released under the PHP license. Heck you can fork the PHP project now if you felt you could get the ball rolling with enough momentum for acceptance. If beleive the hardened PHP project is considered a fork despite the fact it generally keeps full compatibility while adding security enhancements. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
