Re: PHP4 License

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:58:54AM +0530, Lakshmi Anand K. wrote:
> Hi,
>     We are planning to develop PHP based apps. I hear about some licence
> cliché, particularly with the Zend Stuff. As far as I have seen, PHP4
> remains opensource and Zend engine is released on a QPL clone license.

QPL is certified open source:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

Some people are unhappy with its "degree" of openness. But that's another 
issue.

> Then there is Zend Optimizer that is not open. To me, it seems like
> the KDE/Qt issue.

This is no longer an issue, after Qt became open source.

>     I would like to stick to open source stuff only. Is there a chance that
> the future versions of PHP be closed source ? Please advise on whether to
> use PHP or not.

If you'd like to stick to open source stuff only, you can just stick
to the current version of PHP and continue to develop on it.

An alternative to PHP is to use Zope (ZPL) or Jakarta (Apache = BSDish 
license).

	-Arun