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

[email protected] (Barry Leslie)
Newsgroups php.pecl.dev
Message-ID <C861CD21.C0F51%[email protected]>
Hi,

We can change the licensing of the PBMS client library to make it compatible
with PHP, we are not interested in restricting it's use. Would the BSD
license be OK?

Barry

On 7/13/10 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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