Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl

[email protected] (Lukas Kahwe Smith)
Newsgroups php.pecl.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28.08.2010, at 15:11, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 14:51 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The extension should be BSD/PHP licenses. For the libraries being used
> no such policy had ever been discussed.


though we should probably try to make this as visible as possible. maybe even have a flag in the installer to prevent installing libraries which require a commercial license for being allowed to use the extension.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]
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