Re: php extension for libxl

I used "excel" name rather then "xl", since it is more descriptive of what the extension/library does. 2010/8/28 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>: > 2010/8/28 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net>: >> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 15:20 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: >>> 2010/8/28 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net>: >>> > 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. >>> >>> Wrong, we discussed the libs as well, obviously... >> >> Please point me to the discussion. > > Please read the archives. > > Anyway, they can create a pear channel there and that's it, easy and > straight forward. > > > However, if we accept this extension, then the name should be xl or > something related to the lib. I'm confident that free extensions > without libs deps will come. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org >