Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial - Mailing list pgsql-general

Uh, PHP isn't GPL, as of PHP4, http://www.php.net/license/

    Q. Why is PHP 4 not dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License
    (GPL) like PHP 3 was?

    A. GPL enforces many restrictions on what can and cannot be done with
    the licensed code. The PHP developers decided to release PHP under a
    much more loose license (Apache-style), to help PHP become as popular as
    possible.

I have attached the license that came with PHP 4.0.4.

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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    Well PHP is GPL... thus we left it GPL... it belongs to the
> community. Enjoy :)
>
> J
>
>
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:06:00PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >> As a recent flurry of activity has commenced within Command Prompt we
> >>have released
> >>upon this rather unround earth, plPHP. Yes it is trigger safe, yes you
> >>can write UDF's in
> >>PostgreSQL with PHP now.
> >
> >
> > Very nice.
> >
> > Is it in the public domain?  I don't see any copyright nor license
> > mention in the source code...
> >
>
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