Re: something I noticed re:licenses.

Alex Black wrote: > > ola all, > > in every file in pear, I'm seeing this: > > // Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 The PHP Group > > is this a prerequisite to being part of PEAR? > > I have no intention of ever releasing copyright on the binarycloud code that > was generated at turing. > > also, what is the justification behind enforcing a licensing scheme? > > for example, if I contribute something, I want it to be GPL. A lot of things have been said here, and I think Rasmus once said that everything should have the PHP license. This was not my intent originally, I was thinking more of just requiring an open source license (OSD). However, stuff that is distributed with PHP is another story, it must have the PHP license. Standalone PEAR packages can in theory be GPL'ed, but then there's the question of whether including PHP code is considered runtime or not. If it is not considered runtime, it may be in violation of the GPL to mix PHP licensed and GPL'ed code in a script. Blargh. :-) - Stig