Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:06:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Bundling third-party libraries | ||
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Daniel Convissor wrote:
> 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?
I wasn't talking about bundling, I was talking about direct dependencies
as in:
<package>
<name>ezcConsole</name>
<channel>pear.ezcomponents.com</channel>
</package>
This is a whole different ballgame, as you might imagine.
Greg