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

hi Olivierm

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Olivier Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I don't care about licenses but we decided that we accept packages
within a set of licenses because they are consider safe.

> 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.

Please don't misguide developers. LGPL v2 is fine, v3 is a huge
unknown and different area. That's why I can't say (and won't say)
that it is perfectly valid to use it with PHP.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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