Re: PHP4 License

["SANIsoft" <swati@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

PHP license is seen by the almost entire PHP community as less restrictive

Even Ramus has said so - the new draft was forged to make it less
restrictive than GPL

The main advantage of PHP license in your case is that you can use PHP to
create proprietary works without having to release them.

Zend Engine and the upcoming compiler is an entirely different issue BUT
even then the terms are not too restrictive


The PHP compiler will be a commercial product and is slated for release in
Q3

Search the PHP list archives for a recent thread on this

BTW - I still dont use PHP4 because there are some issues in using PHP4 +
PHPlib

HTH
Tarique

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lakshmi Anand K. <lakshmianand@xxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:45 AM
Subject: [LIG] PHP4 License


>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. Then
>there is Zend Optimizer that is not open. To me, it seems like the KDE/Qt
>issue.
>    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.
>----------------------------
>Lakshmi Anand K.
>MSPV Group
>Pavoorchatram
>
>
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