Zeev Suraski wrote:

> >MySQL access functions were in PHP long before it went open source. I'm
> >not saying that Midgard is on the same level of general usefullness
> >but just that the fact that there's an organization behind it
> >doesn't change it's licensing.
> 
> MySQL was always opensource.  It was perhaps not opensource(tm), but it was
> opensource, before people came along and put rules on what opensource means.

OK, substitute OCI8, the argument stands.

> I tend to agree to Colin's statement.  I don't see the big added value (to
> everyone involved) in distributing midgard alongside PHP, and one of the
> reasons PEAR was born was for such extensions exactly.

Not a problem for me. But how is PEAR being made available, then?

Emile

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