Re: something I noticed re:licenses.
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:15:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: something I noticed re:licenses. | ||
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I see no reason to sign over the copyright.
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Alex Black wrote:
> > Actually what I said was that everything in PEAR should have the same
> > license. I don't really care which license that is. I would prefer an
> > Apache-style license like the PHP one. If each PEAR component had a
> > different license it would be very difficult for someone to figure out
> > what they could use and what they couldn't. We don't want that.
>
> > So yes, as far as I am concerned, a prerequisite of being part of PEAR is
> > to put the contribution under whatever unified license is chosen for PEAR.
>
> hi rasmus,
>
> re: license, that's actually fine with me. the pear-ized php license looks
> totally fine.
>
> my question was specifically regarding copyright and how you intend to
> handle it with pear.
>
> it is:
>
> -every file that I have seen in pear so far is copyrighted by the PHP
> Group, despite the fact that many of the authors are not members of the PHP
> Group.
>
> So, do I have to sign over copyright to the PHP Group for everything I
> contribute to PEAR?
>
> That question is extremely important to me.
>
> -alex
>
>
>
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