Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joe Conway wrote:

> Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:08, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>Is there a possibility of getting this in v7.5?
> >
> > Heres the things I think would have to happen to put this in 7.5
> >
> > 1) Resolve license issues (not bsd licensed)
> > 2) Integrate it into the postgresql build system so it can work on all
> > platforms.
> > 3) Make it build against different versions of php
> > 4) More people testing it in different situations.
>
> Here's my list.
>
> Minor issues/ general code cleanup:
> 1. eliminate '//' style comments
> 2. fix indentation
>
> More significant:
> 2. Add support for array conversion in-out
> 3. Add support for set-returning functions
> 4. Add support for argument/return-value polymorphism
> 5. Incorporate recent improvements in function caching (ala PL/pgSQL)
> 6. Add documentation
> 7. Add regression test support
> 8. Modify for new ereport syntax and nested error contexts
>
> Most significant:
> 9. Use PHP embed API instead of the PHP CLI (command line interface)
> 10.Fix license

Looking at the license for PHP found here:

http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt

it would seem to be pretty much an apache style license that doesn't allow
you to relicense it without permission. but it looks BSD compatible.