Re: Proposal for license change
Sharon Levy wrote:
I'd like to respond to question of who owns PHP with some thoughts that I trust
are germane to the topic.
Why does the PHP project continue to be without any kind of corporate
sponsorship in contrast to the opensource project Ubuntu which is backed by
Canonical? If the PHP project were to have a company supporting it, wouldn't it
be better protected? And, with a company backing it wouldn't the issue of
acquiring a trademark then be feasible?
Ubuntu and some of the other major projects that are 'owned' by corporate bodies have evolved from a different base. OpenOffice is probably a perfect example of how not to do it, and who 'owns' LibreOffice now? Firebird is another example of a corporate codebase (interbase) that has it's own unconstrained existence as a free project that nobody can take over. I class PHP in that camp as well. MANY corporates contribute to PHP but none have the sort of strangle hold that messed up OpenOffice and to a lesser extent MySQL? MariaDB is probably a good example of moving forward, with SkySQL seaming to mirror Zend in style of relations?
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