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

[email protected] (Olivier Hill)
Newsgroups php.pecl.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Barry,

The other solution is to convince the library distributor to change
the license to LGPL. Yet again the library won't be hosted on php.net
even with LGPL, but you will be able to distribute the extension with
a PHP license.

Best regards,
Olivier

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Andrey Hristov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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