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Re: The Future of PHP [message #170989 is a reply to message #170976]

Tue, 14 December 2010 03:42

Adam Harvey
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:22:15 +0100, Luuk wrote:
> On 13-12-10 12:26, Kevin wrote:
>> Looks like there are alot of pissed off people who don't want to use
>> Java any longer because of Oracle's take over of Sun. Could this ever
>> happen to PHP ?. Who actually owns PHP ?.
>
> It show that copy right is at: 'The PHP Group'

Yep, the copyright is held by the PHP Group, as listed at
http://www.php.net/credits.php. As far as I know, there's no particular
organisational structure to that beyond it being a loose group of
developers who have made key contributions to PHP over a long period of
time.

> Zend Technologies only owns the 'Zend Engine' (whatever that is ;)

The Zend Engine is the core runtime engine that parses and executes your
PHP code. As noted, the copyright to that is owned by Zend Technologies,
but as with the rest of PHP, it's made available under a liberal open
source licence.

In short, there's no real way PHP as a whole could be bought by a company
à la Java, because it's not owned by a singular entity as it is, and all
of the components are licensed under an Apache-like licence.

Adam

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		The Future of PHP By: Kevin on Mon, 13 December 2010 11:26
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 13 December 2010 12:08
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Kevin on Mon, 13 December 2010 12:15
		Re: The Future of PHP By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Mon, 13 December 2010 12:57
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Luuk on Mon, 13 December 2010 12:22
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Adam Harvey on Tue, 14 December 2010 03:42
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 14 December 2010 04:57
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Magno on Tue, 14 December 2010 13:48
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Twayne on Tue, 14 December 2010 14:13
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Adam Harvey on Wed, 15 December 2010 02:51
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 15 December 2010 03:17
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Adam Harvey on Wed, 15 December 2010 03:24
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 15 December 2010 03:29
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Moiv on Wed, 15 December 2010 03:40
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 15 December 2010 04:24
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Katie on Tue, 21 December 2010 01:03
		Re: The Future of PHP By: asdf on Wed, 15 December 2010 05:54
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Erwin Moller on Wed, 15 December 2010 11:25
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 16 December 2010 23:51
		Re: The Future of PHP By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 17 December 2010 00:02
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Erwin Moller on Fri, 17 December 2010 08:56
		Re: The Future of PHP By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 17 December 2010 09:29
		Re: The Future of PHP By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 17 December 2010 09:37
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Erwin Moller on Mon, 20 December 2010 14:45
		Re: The Future of PHP By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 20 December 2010 15:38
		Re: The Future of PHP By: Man-wai Chang on Fri, 17 December 2010 11:41

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