At 23:51 06/12/2005, Pierre wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:53:37 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasmus Lerdorf) wrote:
> Pierre wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:03:16 +0100
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derick Rethans) wrote:
> >
> >>> * Introduce xmlwriter extension via a symlink from pecl into core
> >>> and as other XML extension enable it by default.
> >> Make sure that the licences gets switched back to the PHP license
> >> then...
> >
> > It is already done since last week.
> >
> > And I still do not have some good explanation about this new
> > requirement.
>
> It's not a new requirement. It is simply the status-quo and common
> sense.
Our common senses tend to differ, it is sometimes good to clarify it :-)
> All the extensions we bundle are under the same license so
> people get a tarball with a consistent license and they don't have to
> wade through a license soup trying to figure out if they meet all the
> requirements of a bunch of different licenses. We could add
> extensions with different, but compatible licenses, but there would
> have to be an *extremely* good reason to do so.
Well, talking about extensions only, I have not a real big problem but
the copyrights, I am reluctant to give the copyrights to the group (and
loose it all together), or is it possible to keep original authors
besides the PHP group?
I'm not sure why you care exactly, but from a pure legal standpoint,
it complicates things a bit. Does it mean that someone who wants to
use PHP in his product name has to also come to you in addition to
getting permission from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it mean we need to get
your OK on any future license changes, as minor as they may be?
About the consistent license policy inside a tarball, GDlib is
not under the PHP License, for example.
Or upcoming bundled libs will have to follow the same policy (lib like
in gdlib for example)?
About other licences, indeed I was thinking about BSD'ish license for
the worst case (and certainly not lgpl&friends as they are more
restrictive).
What's wrong with the PHP license?
Zeev
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