RE: [PEAR] License Announcement

Two notes ... 1.) Why don't we have a PEAR license? 2.) If a current package doesn't allow it to be used in a commercial/closed source application I think it should either a.) be removed or b.) change its license. I say the second thing mainly because I, as a commercial developer, shouldn't have to worry when using PEAR if the package I use will force me to open my app or not. --Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Smith [mailto:smith@backendmedia.com] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:13 AM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net; PEAR general list > Subject: [PEAR] License Announcement > > > Hi, > > The PEAR Group would like to announce the following > refinement of the current license faq entry > (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/faq.licenses.ph> p). > > Vote > result: > 5 (+1), 0 (-1), 3 (+0) > > The current list > allows a great number of licenses which vary greatly. This > means that users may have to learn the in's and out's of alot > of licenses. Also some of the license choices impose > comparitively high restrictions to the standard PHP license > (GPL, QPL ..). As PEAR aims to extend the functionality > provided by PHP users of PHP should fairly safely be able to > also use any PEAR package without licensing worries, be it > for commercial or non commercial, closed or opensource use. > > Therefore with this announcement the license choices are > reduced to the following short list: PHP, Apache, LGPL and BSD style > > Other licenses may be accepted on a case by case basis, but > will have to fit the above criterias. This decision has been > made to simplify the current situation, and as with all > decisions is open to be refined in the future using the RFC > proposal methodolgy. > > All packages, which are already part of PEAR as of now, which > use other licenses, do not need to follow this regulation. > > regards, > Lukas Smith > smith@backendmedia.com > _______________________________ > BackendMedia > www.backendmedia.com > berlin@backendmedia.com > > Linn Zwoch Smith GbR > Pariser Str. 44 > D-10707 Berlin > > Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 > Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07 > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >