# Who maintains the PHP you run? A version signed off by the people who maintain it, buyers who require that signature, and money that flows down the chain: what changed in v1.3.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "Who maintains the PHP you run? A version signed off by the people who maintain it, buyers who require that signature, and money that flows down the chain" in v1.3.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [Who maintains the PHP you run? A version signed off by the people who maintain it, buyers who require that signature, and money that flows down the chain](../../who-maintains-the-php-you-run.md) / [Versions](../who-maintains-the-php-you-run.md) / v1.3.0 # Who maintains the PHP you run? A version signed off by the people who maintain it, buyers who require that signature, and money that flows down the chain: what changed in v1.3.0 From v1.2.0 (2026-10-24, `ac82adf34`) to v1.3.0 (2026-10-24, this release), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 1 changed in place, 84 unchanged. About 53 words added and 0 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [← v1.2.0](v1.2.0.md) · [all versions](../who-maintains-the-php-you-run.md) 66 unchanged paragraphs, under In short: what I am proposing {#in-short}, The case I have been making {#the-case}, A version signed off by the people who maintain it {#signed-off}… ThreeWhatlinestiesfromthesethatoptionsproposaltogethercarryisthesimple.logic.Nobody"Paidpaysto map. Paid to engineer. Retained to maintain." Revenue follows "the work customers ask RiskMandate to own", notfor access to closedthecode.code:Andit"Contractisvalueall open. What a customer pays for is work: understanding what they run, changing it to fit, and keeping it maintained. That is the opposite of the usual software model, where the code is locked away and you pay for a licence to use it. Here the code is free, and the commitment is what you buy. The price follows thehowobligation accepted": maintenance can be worth more than the first implementation, "if the additional support burdenmuch is measuredatandstake:priced." Aa council's citizen login and a university's archive wiki both run PHP;PHP, but they should not buy the same maintenance, and today neither can buy any. TheOverparttimethatthemattersmaintenancemostcanforbethiswortharticle:more"Lessthanuniquethecode"firstmakesproject, as long as the work it takes is measured and priced. And the smaller and less unusual a customer's version "Easieris, the easier it is to maintain, audit,check, replace and hand over",over;andwhere the customer allows it, the improvements thatmadearefornot sensitive canthem go back tointo the open basecodewheneveryonethe customer permits.uses. That is how paying for the maintenance of one customer'sorganisation's version feedsalso improves the code for everyone runs.else. 18 unchanged paragraphs, under Towards regulation {#regulation}, Not only PHP {#beyond}, What this does not claim {#limits}… [← v1.2.0](v1.2.0.md) · [all versions](../who-maintains-the-php-you-run.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/who-maintains-the-php-you-run/v1.3.0.html)*