Re: Re: com web/pecl: check for the LICENSE or COPYING presence in tarballs: public_html/release-upload.php

On 10/19/13 11:44 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

Sure. But unfortunately we have a problem with one of the main extensions here, namely oci8. This is a huge issue for legal reasons for them.

It's a problem for me personally. While I expect there will be no issues, that's not for me to decide. IANAL and if I'm merging a file which makes a claim of the nature under discussion, I would like to run it past someone who is. The PHP & PECL processes etc will take a bit of time to explain. There will be cross checking of any new file compared with the file headers & package.xml, discussion of licenses etc. And my group's representative has been on short vacation, and is likely to have a backlog of business-critical issues to handle first. In the meantime I'm blocked from distributing valid code in the way it previously could be. The upload block is a purely technical limitation imposed without a grace period, and that could be resolved by additional logic to check package.xml's <license> tag. Or it could be moved to a later stage of any distribution process. Chris -- christopher.jones@oracle.com http://twitter.com/ghrd Free PHP & Oracle book: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/php/underground-php-oracle-manual-098250.html