Re: PECL site improvements

hi Chris, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: > > This change just blocked me from releasing OCI8 on PECL. OCI8 has > traditionally had the license information > (http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt) mentioned appropriately in the > source code and package.xml files. > > I only recall limited discussion [1] around this topic and no > discussion of hard enforcement. We did discuss it and it is actually a requirement from a licensing point of view for all non source releases, be for Windows DLLs or distributions. > > The upload form site shouldn't block valid uploads. It should do one > of: Yes, it should. We had tried long enough to get people solve the license problem by clearly defining it in a LICENSE/COPYING file, for the extension or bundled libraries licenses. > 1. Only warn about a missing file > > 2. Recognize the package.xml license, perhaps just a special case > recognizing the PHP license: > <license > uri="http://www.php.net/license">PHP</license> > (This would be my preference.) > > 3. Neither of the above. > > If distributions (such as Windows DLL builds) need to supply license > information: > > 1. They can parse package.xml and locate the correct licence. > > 2. They can distribute the source code, if that is a recognizable > part of the license requirement (IANAL) > > 3. They can decide not to make distributions if they can't determine > the license in a usable form for their use. Option 4: Add an empty one until you get the Oracle management realize that it is a must. Or is it also something you can't do? Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org