Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl
[email protected] (Pierre Joye)
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2010/8/28 Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 15:20 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: >> 2010/8/28 Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>: >> > 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. >> >> Wrong, we discussed the libs as well, obviously... > > Please point me to the discussion. Please read the archives. Anyway, they can create a pear channel there and that's it, easy and straight forward. However, if we accept this extension, then the name should be xl or something related to the lib. I'm confident that free extensions without libs deps will come. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org