On 21-Jan-07, at 6:12 PM, Alain Williams wrote:
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.
That's a decision for PHP Group to make. Personally I think PHP
related projects should avoid using "PHP" in their name period as it
causes far too many problems for the language itself, since most
people fail to distinguish between PHP the language and project
trying to gain popularity by shoving "PHP" into its name.
Ilia Alshanetsky
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