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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] JSON inclusion in core
From: omar@rememberthemilk.com (Omar Kilani)

Rasmus, Marcus,

> Friday, January 20, 2006, 8:31:58 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> pecl/json is a rather simple extension with no external deps (it bundles 
>> the small library it uses).  The JSON format is stable with no real 
>> possibility of changing basically by definition, and I see its use 
>> exploding this year.  There is also talk to a JSON Request object being 
>> added to browsers and if that happens we need to support that natively 
>> much like we support url-encoded form data ending up directly in $_POST. 
>>   I could see a $_JSON if browsers start sending this.  But, as an 
>> initial step how about we bundle pecl/json in the next release?
> 
>> There is an issue with the fact that it is LGPL'ed.  But perhaps we can 
>> work with Omar to put at least the extension part under the PHP license 
>> when bundled with PHP.
> 
> I don't care for the lib itself whether we bundle or not. The extension
> should however change to PHP License just like XmlWriter needed to change.

I've modified the license back to the PHP license in cvs.

The reason I switched to the LGPL in the first place is so that Debian 
would allow inclusion of the package. :)

> Best regards,
>  Marcus

Regards,
Omar