Re: [PECL-DEV] php extension for libxl

I used "excel" name rather then "xl", since it is more descriptive of
what the extension/library does.

2010/8/28 Pierre Joye <[email protected]>:
> 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
>
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