Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:55:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal | ||
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Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
Sara Golemon wrote:In general I am also not a fan of license exceptions. It gets messy really quickly. If they are interested in spreading the use of their library to open source projects like PHP, it sounds like they chose the wrong license. The LGPL is specifically written for this purpose and wouldn't require any sort of exception. -RasmusIANAL, but it seems like it would be more straight-forward to declare a dual license for the library. LGPL licensed (or even PHP licensed, but I don't want to be too hopeful) to the PHP/GeoIP extension, GPL licensed to all other users.the very idea of the GPL and LGPL is that you *not* restrict usage to certain groups of people or usecases, so a "LGPL for PHP extension x.y.z" will just not work without fundamental changes to the LGPL itself (by which time you wouldn't be able to call it LGPL anymore ...)