Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Cornelia Boenigk wrote:

> Hi
>
>> Now, I just checked the PHP5 LICENSE file, and it isn't GPL or BSD,
>> but the license is held by 'The PHP Group', not by Zend ...
>
> Zend is the owner of the Zend Engine but not the owner of the PHP code.

This is what I thought ... now, what happens if the Zend engine is pulled
out of PHP?  Does that cripple the PHP project, or just inconvience it?

For instance, I know if I don't download/install the Zend Optimizer, and
do a 'phpinfo()', it still lists the Zend Engine itself, so its part of
the *base* PHP build ...

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