Re: PHP License

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:48:18 -0700 Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote: > Why is this a problem? Just change the license of PEAR ... It's > NOT a big deal to change a license. What's the problem of going > from PHP to a more liberal license (LGPL or BSD)? None. There > aren't any BC's because we're becoming MORE liberal, not less. LGPL is not liberal at all. > If our licenses and standards for licenses are prohibiting other > projects from adopting PEAR then we need to become more liberal > with our licenses. It's not like PEAR is some corporation that > needs to monitor this kind of stuff. > > The only possible "problem" is that PEAR < 1.4.0 will be the PHP > license and PEAR > 1.4.0 will have a more liberal license (BSD, > LGPL, whatever). That's not a problem - it just means that the > earlier versions will have more restrictions, but upgrading will > mean you have less restrictions. The only big problem is to ask every contributors if he is fine to change the licence, asking the maintainers being easy. And we need the absolute majority. For one, my answer is no. No way to change the licence for PEAR now. A last thing, this is not something one can vote on. So keep your +/- 1 for something else :) Regards, --Pierre