Re: Was MPL under consideration of good licenses for PEAR?

Axel Hecht wrote: > Hi all, > > we Mozillians want to start out on a project with a php implementation, > and would like to pick a license that is both good for PEAR/PECL and for > us. > > I have found > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/faq.devs.php#faq.licenses, > which mentions BSD and MIT, which we could go for, though Mitchell Baker > mourned the lack of patent protection therein, compared to the MPL. > > Thus, before we do stuff that nobody wants to revert, was the MPL > discussed yet? If, or if not, what was the outcome, or if not, would you > consider looking into it? > > Having glanced through the recent posting, I guess that a new decision > on the MPL would likely have to wait for the elections, am I right there? Hello, The best course of action seems to be to wait for the election to end and the pear-group to be in place. This should happen relatively quickly. I would suggest you write to the group once in place. Arnaud.