FWD: Re: license question

------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: September 25, 2008 09:04.24 -0400 From: craig@constantine.name To: Damiano Venturin <dam@venturin.net> Subject: Re: license question (cc'd to pear-dev in case anyone else has thoughts) Hello Damiano, Than you. I'm glad you find Net_Ping useful. I'm only the current package lead, and am not one of the original authors. I have contributed a significant amount of code to the package -- perhaps half of the current code is mine and was built upon the ideas already implemented in the package. The original package authors selected the "PHP license", and my understanding when I began contributing to the package was that it had to remain under the same license. The package lists the following authors: // | Authors: Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> // | Tomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> // | Jan Lehnardt <jan@php.net> // | Kai Schroeder <k.schroeder@php.net> // | Craig Constantine <cconstantine@php.net> If you can obtain a concensus from the other authors, I would agree to a change to the BSD license. -craig -----On September 25, 2008 11:45.38 +0000 Damiano Venturin <dam@venturin.net> wrote: [This message has been brought to you via pear.php.net.] Hi Craig I'm Damiano Venturin. First I want to thank you for your precious work. I'm using your Net/Ping package in this really new and small project called SMAK http://www.squadrainformatica.com/smak/ I go to the point: I would like to release SMAK under the GPL licence but I'm having many troubles with free non compatible classes used to build smak (6 on 16). One of these classes is Net/Ping: it's licensed under the PHP license. So I'm asking to you if is there the possibility to move the license from PHP to New BSD one, or to have a double licensing. Of course I do not pretend anything, I'm just asking to understand which roads I can run to reach my target. Thank you again Damiano Venturin ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------