Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal

On 7/14/06, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

-1 here. I don't see why we should be stuck in the middle of this and risk yet another angry RMS exchange. We have nothing to gain here. They are perfectly free to distribute this extension from their own site and leave us out of their license mess.

The problem is not hosting this stuff on their website or sourceforge. The problem is with visibility of the module. How many times has geoip been discussed here? I'm sure many PHP users are looking for it on PECL, don't see it, and go somewhere else. This is the biggest flaw PHP has right now in my opinion, that extensions are missing or not centralized and hard to find. I know we don't want the GPL things to be virulant, but in this case, I still don't see how the license exception is different from MySQL. I liked CPAN. I liked PEAR. I just wish PECL could be that easy, or should I say flexible. I've been close to the PHP dev community for a while now, and I find it really hard to contribute stuff. No hard feelings, but I just wanted to let this off my chest. I'm pretty sure some good devs are scared off. Anyway, I'll inform Maxmind that it cannot be included on PECL, even with a license change. Thank you everyone for your time. Sincerely, Olivier