Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl

[email protected] (Derick Rethans)
Newsgroups php.pecl.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, 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.

Except for GPL though, as that would "make" the PECL extension have to 
be GPL too. I've no issues with it; and it's not a legal problem 
either as far as I can see.

Derick

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