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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 19:22:27 -0300
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To: Peter Kokot <petk@php.net>
From: calvin@cmpct.info (Calvin Buckley)

On Jul 4, 2025, at 6:52=E2=80=AFPM, Peter Kokot <petk@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> I'd also suggest deprecating building ext/readline with the Readline =
library and
> ext/dba with the GDBM library.
>=20
> These two libraries are released under the GPL-3 license, which is not
> compatible with PHP. In practice this means that PHP linked with =
GPL-3-licensed
> software should not be distributed, making it impractical for any =
server
> environment beyond a local testing project. This issue isn't =
immediately
> obvious, but many packagers need to be aware of it and avoid building =
with these
> libraries.
>=20
> ext/readline works fine with the Editline library as an alternative,
> ext/dba works fine with other handlers.
>=20
> This suggestion would otherwise delay resolving the issue, as it would =
require
> an RFC vote - something I hoped to avoid in pull requests. But I =
suppose that's
> how it has to be handled.

To add to this, GDBM also doesn't seem to work with our ext/dba tests;
QDBM did, however.

I ran into this earlier when doing the PPC CI work:

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/17258#issuecomment-2585405491=