LGPL - Re: [PEAR-DEV] [PEPr] +1 for Math::Math_Polynomial

Hello Justin, From Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 8:51:20 PM, you wrote: JP> Justin Patrin (http://pear.php.net/user/justinpatrin) has JP> voted +1 on the proposal for Math::Math_Polynomial. JP> Proposal information: JP> http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=312 JP> Vote information: JP> JP> http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-vote-show.php?id=312&handle=justinpatrin JP> This vote is conditional. The condition is: JP> As others have said, GPL license isn't allowed in PEAR. I would suggest LGPL or BSD. BTW, I think LGPL is also limitive in some cases. Quite often you do not need all functionality LGPL package provides, but need to use a part of it's code in your own project. If in BSD case it is sufficient to mention author's copyright, with LGPL you need try to backport changes to PEAR, where this proposal can be easily rejected due to it's limited/specific nature, so the only way would be to rewrite the code from scratch. t --