Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal
| From: | Hartmut Holzgraefe | Date: | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:46:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal | ||
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Olivier Hill wrote:
On 7/13/06, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org> wrote:exactly ... what is the advantage of adding a 2nd license in a crippled way (LGPL with use restriction) over just using one license with a special PHP exception added to it? extending what is permitted by a license (GPL) seems to be more logical here than restricting what is permitted by another license (LGPL) -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.comI don't think anything short of a dual license (the 2nd LGPL can be specific to PHP usage) would do the trick.Which is impossible if I understand correctly what Hartmut said. But please enlight me as to what is different here from what we already do with MySQL.