On Jul 4, 2025, at 6:52 PM, Peter Kokot <p...@php.net> wrote: > > I'd also suggest deprecating building ext/readline with the Readline library > and > ext/dba with the GDBM library. > > 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. > > ext/readline works fine with the Editline library as an alternative, > ext/dba works fine with other handlers. > > 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
