Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl

hi,

2010/8/28 Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 15:20 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
>> hi Ilia,
>>
>> Is there any free (as in beer) version available for the library? If
>> not I'm not in favour of having it in PECL. The PDFLib case is one old
>> example why it brings only confusions and is hard to maintain or to
>> rely on.
>
> There is a d/l on http://www.libxl.com/download.html
> We have (especially in the Payment and Database categories) different
> extensions linking against libraries which are only available "for free"
> with "strange" legal restrictions.
>
> I understood PECL's goal always as a place to collect all extensions
> where legally possible, so user's can do as many things with PHP as
> possible simply by going to php.net.
>
> So we can't provide binaries and we probably can do less bug fixing
> there but I was told the new PECL infrastructure is supposed to have
> tags which might be used to mark them accordingly.

We have restricted the licenses to BSD-like and PHP to be sure that
all extensions can be used in any situation without legal pains. It is
obvious that we have legacy extensions (btw, most payments extensions
rely on free as in beer libs, but the service is usually not free)
which do not fit to this new policy but it does not mean we can or
should accept more because of them.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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