Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 15:21 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> > 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.

We don't provide libraries. We document (hopefully) dependencies. If a
user fetches a library he has to agree to the license (independent from
the license being BSD, some commercial EULA, LGPL or whatever). I don't
mind tagging "OSI approved OpenSource" or such but there is no policy
preventing linking commercial libs. (If there is strong support for such
a policy this might change, but there wasn't, and if this is changed,
what I won't support, there should be a proper decision about handling
"legacy" extensions)

johannes