Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries
| From: | Daniel Convissor | Date: | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:45:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries | ||
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:03:49AM -0500, Greg Beaver wrote:
>
> The only way this could work is if we have an explicit, legal document
> from the third-party channel that the license will never change to a
> non-PEAR recognized license, or something along these lines.
Why? That doesn't seem necessary. It has an open license now. If the
license changes to a problematic one, they can't take back the code that's
already out there. So, we keep the linked/bundled library at the last
version that had an acceptable license. What's the problem?
--Dan
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