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Re: The Future of PHP [message #170990 is a reply to message #170989]

Tue, 14 December 2010 04:57

Jerry Stuckle
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On 12/13/2010 10:42 PM, Adam Harvey wrote:
> 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

No, but without an engine, PHP is pretty worthless.

Of course, if someone ever bought out Zend and terminated everyone's PHP
license, a bunch of programmers could spend the next 3-4 years putting
together another engine and getting it to run. But by then PHP would be
dead anyway.

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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
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