Re: Licensing of things within PEAR

"Derek A. Neighbors" wrote: > > Seeing this little debate made me wonder the following? > > What license are the classes in PEAR? (I assume they are under the PHP > license) but did not see a LICENSE or COPYING file in the PEAR directory. > > If in fact it is under the PHP License are all contributions forced to > use this license? Example: I have the my kickbutt class. I licensed it > under the GPL and distributed to several other repositories and now want > it to be in the PEAR repository. Must I either dual license it or > change the license? or will every class have the license it author > desires. If the latter how will you manage this and whom has copyright > to what as people continue to improve on the works of others in a > significant way? PEAR has room for different licenses, but stuff that does not share PHP's license is best distributed separately. - Stig