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

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

You might not like all that GPL/LGPL stuff and I do understand why.
However, the fact is that LGPL for an external library is fully
compatible with an extension distributed under the PHP License.

Library vendors might want to protect themselves from companies taking
their code and close-sourcing it. If LGPL is what is needed for us to
get a hand on that code and make them feel safe about distributing it
under a "more liberal" license, I'm fully okay with it.

Barry: If you are ready to move to a BSD license, that would be best.
However, if you need to stick to the GPL variants, LGPL will be
sufficient to host your PHP License extension on PECL. Be aware though
that the LGPL library cannot be "hosted" on PECL.

Best regards,
Olivier

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Barry Leslie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been needing to do this far a while so I did it now.
>>
>> There is now a PBMS client library project on launchpad:
>> https://launchpad.net/pbmslib
>>
>> The client library has been released under the GNU LGPL v3 license.
>
> I thought you wanted to move to BSD?
>
> I'm really not confident enough with the *gpl v3 licenses. They are
> just as bad as GPL alone from a PHP License point of view.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre

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