Re: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2

On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

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> On 02.02.2008, at 03:39, Wez Furlong wrote:
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>> At the time we prepare a PHP release, we could then take the latest  
>> stable release from PECL for those drivers and put them into the  
>> "core" tarball (and compile them for the "core" zipfile).
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> Can't we explore making this the default for all extensions? Also  
> while we are at it, I know a number of PECL devs are complaining  
> about various issues like the branching to maintain versions for  
> different PHP minor versions etc.

We can.  I suggest focusing on PDO first and making sure that that  
works out, and then we can gradually move other extensions in this way.

> IANAL, but it seems a number of additional rights granted by the PDO  
> license could be folded into the PHP license. Also what cannot be  
> folded into the PDO license, could maybe be put into an extended  
> license (which would need to be allowed). This way the PDO drivers  
> could be under the extended licensen maybe. Might make things even  
> less problematic?

Maybe.  I don't object to this, but just wanted to say again that  
changing the PHP license is not an objective for PDO 2.

--Wez.