No idea about the license thing but another philosophy is not
to bloat the PHP main distribution.
Even imagick extension was refused to go into PHP main.
- Markus
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:12:34AM +0100, Mathieu Kooiman wrote :
> On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:03, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > I'm almost done writing a PHP module for my library, pdb-lib, which
> > > enables you to read and write .PDB files on the PC.
> > >
> > > This library is not YET available. I have some question pending
> > > somewhere and after that I'll release it (GPL).
> > >
> > > Is there any interest in adding this to the PHP dist ?
> > >
> >
> > Well, I think its more appropriate for PECL (its cool - I just don't
> > see a reason to add it to the main distribution).
>
> What's this PECL ?
>
> PHP's Enormously Cool Library ?
>
> > But aside from that
> > we can't add code that links to GPL software in the PHP distribution
> > simply cause the PHP license and GPL conflict (LGPL is fine btw).
>
> Reality check, so if the Library is onder GPL, it can't be added?
> Or if the MODULE is under GPL.. cos.. heck, I'll make LGPL..
>
> >
> > -Sterling
> >
> > > -- Mathieu
> > >
> > >
> > >
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