Re: [PECL-DEV] New PrimeBase Media Streaming (PBMS) extension

[email protected] (Andrey Hristov) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:40:42 +0200

Newsgroups	php.pecl.dev
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Pierre Joye wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Barry Leslie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> There is one question for you, which comes from
>>> http://pecl.php.net/account-request.php : what license is used for the
>>> PBMS client library?
>>>
>> The PBMS client library uses the GNU GPL v2 license .
> 
> GPL is not compatible with the PHP License. It is not allowed to use a
> GPL library with a PHP licensed extension.
> 
> Cheers,

You need an exception from the library developer, like the MySQL FOSS 
Exception for libmysql. In any case the library can't stay at php.net, 
only your extension, if you get this exception.

Andrey