RE: [PEAR-DEV] Contributing code

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Eure [mailto:ieure@debian.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:06 PM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: [PEAR-DEV] Contributing code > > I have a couple contributions to make to PEAR. I'm still documenting them, > but > they are working fine for me. > > MIME_ContentType > =============== > > This class handles querying for MIME types. You can get the MIME type for > an > extension, or get the known extensions for a MIME type. Multiple > mime.types > files may be read in, and you can add types if necessary. It also supports > writing a new mime.types file out, with every MIME type it knows about. > > > Doclib > ====== > > This is a component built on top of DB_DataObject for handling uploaded > files. > Files get stored to disk in one subdirectory, though it shouldn't be hard > to > change so they get stored in a BLOB, if that's desired. It uses > HTML_QuickForm and MIME_ContentType. > > > Both are under the GPL, and development was funded by WebSprockets, LLC[1]. > They both appear to be stable, but bug reports are welcome. Both have > pretty > complete PHPDoc comments, though I have no other documentation or examples > at > this time. They can be found at > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/pear/ > > I'd like a CVS account to get these in PEAR. Questions, Comments? > both sound interesting enough .. yet this brings up the licensing issue again ... Stig .. in our last discussion you said something like "lets wait til monday" :-) I for one think that PEAR packages should have similar licenses to what PHP runs under. Especially no forcing of opening code that interfaces with the package. Regards, Lukas