Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl
[email protected] (Lukas Kahwe Smith)
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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]