Re: php extension for libxl
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:21:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php extension for libxl | ||
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On 28.08.2010, at 15:11, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 14:51 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
>> We have restricted the licenses to BSD-like and PHP to be sure that
>> all extensions can be used in any situation without legal pains. It is
>> obvious that we have legacy extensions (btw, most payments extensions
>> rely on free as in beer libs, but the service is usually not free)
>> which do not fit to this new policy but it does not mean we can or
>> should accept more because of them.
>
> The extension should be BSD/PHP licenses. For the libraries being used
> no such policy had ever been discussed.
though we should probably try to make this as visible as possible. maybe even have a flag in the
installer to prevent installing libraries which require a commercial license for being allowed to
use the extension.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org