Re: License issues (was: +1 for System::System_Mount)

On 12 Jun 2004 at 11:12, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Sat Jun 12, 2004 at 10:4001AM +0200, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > While we're at it: Does somebody know anything about the license- > > upgrade that was expected to be written with the Apache license in > > mind? A long while ago we discussed that some terms from the PHP- > > license don't fit well / anyhow to PEAR packages. I think it was > > Martin who said that a new php license was on the way and suggested > > that we don't try to invent a PEAR-license. > > Working out a new version of the PHP License should be the job of the > PHP Group. That's what I meant, yeah. Back in those days afaik you said that PHP- group is already working towards a new license version - so the question was if there is already any. Otherwise imho we might consider a PEAR-release or I'd switch to something other (maybe LGPL fits a bit better). > > I think we urgently need a license that really fits our needs. > > I don't think it's that urgent, because we have been doing fine with the > status-quo for ages now. And except for Ian's recent concern, nobody > seems to have any real problem with it. Well, there are some parts in the PHP-license that don't fit to PEAR's needs at all and that I'm not really happy with to have them in. But this was already discussed ages ago as well :-) That nobody complains ("has problems with it") doesn't mean they fully agree or at least have read the license - does it? *g* Stefan