Re: Re: PHP Licensed GeoIP PECL module proposal

Olivier Hill wrote: > 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. Why not just set up a PEAR channel? PECL extensions can be distributed just the same as other packages. I imagine it would not be a problem to mention external PECL channels just as PEAR mentions external PEAR-style channels. This solves the license issue because the extension is distributed externally, but is still easy to find. Greg