Re: Inclusion of extension relying on commercial only libraries?
| From: | Stig Bakken | Date: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:35:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Inclusion of extension relying on commercial only libraries? | ||
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> As you noticed today, there is a little debate about accepting
> commercial libraries binding in pecl. It is a gray area so let decide
> whether we want extensions for commercial only libraries (not related
> to operating systems but libraries). By commercial only I mean
> libraries like libpdf or libxl (recently propoosed).
>
> Please vote +1 to reject commercial only libraries binding and -1 to allow
> them.
>
+1 - I would be really annoyed if trying to install some useful-sounding
extension only to discover I needed to cash out for a commercial library
even to test it.
What about having a separate official channel for this?
- Stig