Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:22:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries | ||
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Pierre wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Arnaud Limbourg <arnaud@limbourg.com> wrote:
>
>> Besides, even if the external package license should be changed the
>> package maintainer can still use the old version and effectively fork
>> the third-party library.
>
>
> That's going to be a maintaince nightmare. I can live with them for
> optional (and/or toys) components, but not for required parts of a
> PEAR package. I see no reason to change our policy here.
Could you point out a URL of this policy? I don't want there to be
debate about this in the future, this needs to be explicit on the web.
If it isn't, then we don't actually have any policy.
Thanks,
Greg