On 15/6/17 10:34 pm, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
On Do, 2017-06-15 at 11:06 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Remi Collet <r...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
Hi,
All extensions in php-src are PHP 3.01 Licensed
(libs may, of course, have different license)
Is there any strong rule about this ?
Or is it OK to have a BSD Licensed extension ?
Context: see sodium PR
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_php_php-2Dsrc_pull_2560&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=lLpUdeB4xTiOOWD6yGzxPFv2SHvPzg3yLT7kvD-ZfyU&m=GT6MkgICJHeF19FAbAaTtuH4St0KJibc9P1oLj7395Y&s=VGZgqeH18gkOkITtpv0ZRNfFvmlvCHdsjJ13Zu2yIv4&e=
IMHO, make sense to have only PHP Licensed ext.
I think we should allow BSD/MIT licenses, as they are compatible with
and
less restrictive than the PHP license. TBH, the PHP license seems
somewhat
dubious when applied to extensions, as most of the additional clauses
are
simply not applicable (extensions do not bundle the Zend Engine and
extensions have no control over the PHP group or the PHP name).
What about the Apache 2 license?
I'd like to be able to include the ODPI-C library code [1] in PDO_OCI and/or
OCI8.
It is being used for Python cx_Oracle [2] and Node.js node-oracledb [3].
ODPI-C is under a dual license, one of which is Apache 2.
Mind: The PHP License[1] doesn't talk about the Zend engine, but "PHP
Software", "PHP Software" is, since PHP License 3.01 compared to PHP
License 3.0 defined as PEAR, PECL and PHP on [2]
The "this software includes the ZendEngine" thing in the PHP
distribution's license file[3] is not part of the PHP License, but a
requirement for the PHP product, which includes the Zend Engine
product, which is licensed under the Zend Engine License[4].
According to the most legal interpretations I know (IANAL ... ask two
lawyers, get three answers ...) a BSD-licensed extension bundled in PHP
would be relicensed under PHP license "automatically" when being
distributed as part of the PHP product.
IANAL-too, and haven't talked to one about this - but will one day.
I however think it makes sense to license all bundled extensions as PHP
license with copyright PHP Group as this simplifies moving code around
(i.e. if a BSD licensed extension contains some nice macro which might
be useful to put into main/ this is simpler from a stricter legal pov
if it's the same license)
True.
Chris
[1] https://github.com/oracle/odpi
[2] https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle
[3] https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb/tree/dev-2.0
johannes
[1]
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__php.net_license_3-5F01.txt&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=lLpUdeB4xTiOOWD6yGzxPFv2SHvPzg3yLT7kvD-ZfyU&m=GT6MkgICJHeF19FAbAaTtuH4St0KJibc9P1oLj7395Y&s=7x6vjEasY6oe1GzH9OXDBE3pXyveWOz8ls3sXtwy1vw&e=
[2]
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__php.net_software.php&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=lLpUdeB4xTiOOWD6yGzxPFv2SHvPzg3yLT7kvD-ZfyU&m=GT6MkgICJHeF19FAbAaTtuH4St0KJibc9P1oLj7395Y&s=g1dWNiQpuE2RR-lswQmJXYYD_zwkAzYd1bVVRLXOVBw&e=
[3]
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__git.php.net_-3Fp-3Dphp-2Dsrc.git-3Ba-3Dblob-3Bf-3DLICENSE-3Bh-3D9964e0737cc9be&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=lLpUdeB4xTiOOWD6yGzxPFv2SHvPzg3yLT7kvD-ZfyU&m=GT6MkgICJHeF19FAbAaTtuH4St0KJibc9P1oLj7395Y&s=ZUqrUXKbNqC3ECQzQRCh6wTF8HWoWt18RInPHAMHcQM&e=
0521b056be697a5fbeb14d01ef;hb=refs/heads/master
[4]
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__git.php.net_-3Fp-3Dphp-2Dsrc.git-3Ba-3Dblob-3Bf-3DZend_LICENSE-3Bh-3D8acb9af4f&d=DwIDaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=lLpUdeB4xTiOOWD6yGzxPFv2SHvPzg3yLT7kvD-ZfyU&m=GT6MkgICJHeF19FAbAaTtuH4St0KJibc9P1oLj7395Y&s=3J0pO0pb7tkfrqMlrZeaJ729znnn2I8lQqGW_lIt51I&e=
8a589076f305c31501565a2cfe0f6ff;hb=refs/heads/master
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