On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:16AM +1100, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > From a bigger perspective, the reason we prefer people to not use the > PHP name for their projects, especially modified versions of PHP itself, > is that in the extreme case we want to avoid someone releasing PHP 7 on > us. That would confuse a lot of people. For better or worse, if > someone is using PHP they are using code we have control over, so when > they report a bug or describe a problem we have a pretty good idea about > how to go about fixing it. If they are using a heavily modified version > of PHP, then it becomes much harder for us to figure out what is going > on and by asking people to come up with their own brand for such > modifications it becomes obvious to everyone involved that there is a > different codebase involved.
It is a difficult problem and we need to take care before adopting a stance on it, look what happened with the Debian firefox/iceweasle debacle. > -Rasmus -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
