Re: License changes

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clay Loveless wrote: > andrew morton (drewish@katherinehouse.com) wrote: > >> Have there been any updates on the discussions with the PHP Group >> about adjusting the PHP license? > > > I may have missed this discussion, but why are we even considering bothering > with this (if we are, that is)? > > To even consider jumping through hoops to let a package system package our > package system is pretty silly. Debian users who want to use PEAR should be > very familiar with the concept of a package manager: let them use the pear > command-line tool. > > Installing PEAR packages with apt-get? .... Why would you? Gentoo also uses it's own portage-system to and install pear-packages to realize dependencies to web-applications... Don't know what's the advantage, maybe Sebastian Bergmann can reply to this, as far as I know he's involved in the php-herd in Gentoo and maintains the pear-packages there... Stephan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDWADD8qQ9XV7tBNQRApXDAJ41iCfzFLxhUbQE2TdRrojTFsLabgCeNtEY bdFfUFmyFaRZN5De6lV7GWg= =O4d1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----