RE: [PEAR-DEV] Licence
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:30:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR-DEV] Licence | ||
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> From: echo15@delirium.ch [mailto:echo15@delirium.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:24 PM
> Hi
>
> I wrote:
> >> Does anyone know if there's a licence compatible with PEAR yet for
> >> instance excluding the weapons industry? I guess the answer is 'no'
>>
> as
>
> Alexander Merz wrote:
> > The problem is not to exclude, the problem is how to define 'Weapons
> > industry'. Is a Solinger Knife producer a part of the weapons
> > industry? Is a friend of mine a weapon maker because her cakes can
> > kill people?
>
> I'm willing to work on an appropriate definition, there are legal
terms
> to difference between a death by tank shot and an accident. But how do
> I exclude and anyway release under a PEAR-compatible licence? Glad to
> read that this ain't the real problem, it seems to me though it is -
so
> far.
Actually it is. PEAR licenses should not be severly more restrictive
than the PHP license. We recommend the PHP, BSD or LGPL licenses.
Regards,
Lukas