Re: Licensing of things within PEAR
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Mon, 08 Jan 2001 05:13:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Licensing of things within PEAR | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear |
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> > I don't see the reason to force people to dual-license. Many people are
> > perfectly happy using a BSD-like license. Forcing them to use the GPL
> > makes no sense.
>
> You could easily reverse this to:
>
> I don't see the reason to force people to dual-license. Many people are
> perfectly happy using the GPL license. Forcing them to use a BSD-like
> license makes no sense.
PHP is not a GPL'ed project.
> The dual license allows you to appease both crowds, but more importantly
> it allows you maximum compatiablity if indeed the PHP4 license is not
> GPL compatiable and using PEAR libraries in programs would be considered
> a violation.
The PEAR PHP license will be GPL compatible. Discussions are underway
with RMS in other forums on how to best achieve this compatibility between
BSD-style licenses and the GPL.
-Rasmus