Re: PHP Editions for Internetcommunications,security,and e-business

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:59:34 +0000 helgi@trance.is (Helgi Þormar) wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:48 +0200, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > > > Since when do we not allow QPL? QPL is not gpl as far I > > remember. > > > > Like Freeimage, this is a licence where non GPL-like and > > commercial applications cannot use free of charges. > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong here. > > http://pear.php.net/group/docs/20040402-la.php > > Just reading that tells me it's not supported, which might be > something we could rethink, but like said I'm not sure my self if > it would fit in or not. "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 methodology." For PEAR (I say PEAR here, not pecl :), I think we should not allow licences that does not apply to commercial usages. People should able to get a packages and use it as they like. --Pierre