Re: Re: com web/pecl: Strongly recommend including a licesnse, but not require it: public_html/release-upload.php

On 10/21/2013 09:26 AM, Christopher Jones wrote:

On 10/21/13 2:19 AM, Pierre Joye wrote:

We are not going to change that as we have been trying to get this problem solved for too long. It is a one time task and takes five minutes at most. If Oracle has a licensing issue, wondering which license is used for OCI8, then we have a much bigger problem to solve here. It is also interesting that OCI8 is distributed already with the LICENSE file, in php core. Should we remove the LICENSE in core? Loosing php support in almost all major distributions? Or drop OCI8 in core? Alternatively simply adding the LICENSE file to oci8 according to the license header may sound like a smarter move. But we still did not get any clear statement from Oracle about the actual license of OCI8.

What it is, is my personal task. I want to get the LICENSE file checked by our Legal folk before I commit it to git. I don't foresee any issues other than timing. But IANAL. This is not an "Oracle problem". We understand the PHP License and know proper licensing is important. There are lots of Oracle people committing and contributing to PHP including the PHP Doc Editor and PHP 5.3 Release Master. Chris

As I expected, there is no "Oracle licensing issue" about adding the file. Once everyone was able to be brought up to speed on the proposed change and on PHP release processes, the approval for me to merge a LICENSE file came promptly. I've already checked in the file and created a new PECL OCI8 upload. Chris P.S. Oracle Linux UEK3 kernel with DTrace Dynamic Tracing support was released today, so I'm glad that PHP OCI8 2.0 with DTrace support is also now available. https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/announcing_the_unbreakable_enterprise_kernel -- 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