Re: FWD: Re: license question

Hi, Jan, Martin and Thomas all agree to change the license on all their code in PEAR Regards Helgi On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:05 PM, <craig@constantine.name> wrote: > ------------ 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 ---------- > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >