Re: Contributing code
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:56:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Contributing code | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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>As I mentioned in my other mail, I'm against banning GPL code. It
would
>be a very very bad sign to the Open Source Community if PEAR says
"GPL
>code is not allowed in here" (I can already hear the outcry, even
if most
>(99.9% :) ) of the packages will not be GPL or be changed to LGPL
if we
>ask the author gently).
FSF sends a bad signal to opensource community by saying that Apache
and PHP licenses are non-GPL compatible, meaning linking against
them is not allowed. This means that PHP cannot use samba libraries
for instance.
Edin