PHP Not Moving To The GPL

darthcamaro writes "In an article on InternetNews.com, PHP co-founder Andi Gutmans takes a small shot at RMS (and the FSF), labelling them as fanatics and as not being representative of PHP's user base. 'Most of PHP's user base are people that are using PHP to make a living and they wouldn't care less. "They are just happy that it's a PHP license and they can do whatever they want with it and can ship it with their commercial products," he said.' The comments were made in the context of the recent MySQL LGPL to GPL licesing problem which is what the article is really about. '"We definitely don't see eye to eye on the issue of licensing. He [Richard Stallman] doesn't like our licensing and we know that," Gutmans said. "We're aware of each other, but the PHP project has no intention of moving to some sort of GPL license."'"

Comments

Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

Shucks.

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

first post!

Gentoo??

[Anonymous Coward]

I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?

Moo

[Chacham]

Not moving there? Why would the Jet Propulsion Laboratory need them? The Jet Engine is Microsoft's anyway, they need access in their office anyway. Hmm... i guess they could nibble at it bit by bit, and take a bite out of it.

Bah -perl

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember when the "P" in LAMP stood for Perl. Happy days.

Seriously, all this can do is make LAPP (Postgresql-Perl) more popular. Fine by me. MySQL and PHP relatively suck.

Re:General Public License License

[NeGz]

Just to be that special grade of 'Slashdot' anal-retentive;

I'm pretty sure it's the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, not the PHP Hypertext Project. :P

Slashdot moderation

[0x0d0a]

Sometimes mods will mark something "redundant" when they feel that the point has been made a million other times and is perfectly well understood, even if the point hasn't been made on this particular story.

It's better than an "overrated" mod, isn't it?

I generally dislike the Redundant mod. While the idea behind it is nice -- minimize the signal-to-noise ratio by promoting non-redundant information -- it often winds up penalizing people that present ideas that were often presented earlier in a more clear or more informative manner.

The Overrated mod is just broken. Overrated and Underrated are immune to metamoderation. That breaks a significant part of Slashcode's checks and balances on moderation abuse.

The Flamebait moderation is generally reasonable, though I see a number of people using it on gray-area posts that they don't disagree with ("Linux isn't all that stable. For example...").

Offtopic should nver have been introduced. It really should have been replaced with "Irrelevant" a long time ago. The concept of "offtopic posts" originated, as far as I know, on USENET. On USENET, there are a number of newsgroups that are always having posts added to them, and are always active. If someone is posting about lizards on rec.herpetology.snakes, then someone will say that they are offtopic, and should be posting in rec.herpetology.lizards. That's reasonable and understandable -- there is another open forum on the topic of lizards always available. On Slashcode, however, people have a limited set of open forums that people are reading at any given time. If someone posts about the new G5s and mentions how they collect Mac Pluses, the thread *should* be able to shift over into discussion of Mac Pluses -- but often, moderators mod such discussion Offtopic. Irrelevant would be sufficient to eliminate out-of-the-blue posts like ("I just wanted to tell everyone that it's my birthday!"), but not blow away useful discussion that's an artifact of discussion. For example, this post is not on the topic of the story, but it is certainly not irrelevant -- it is a logical continuation of the way the conversation is going.