Re: Debian request to change the PHP license for Extensions

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Ulf Wendel <ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de> wrote: > Am 27.06.2014 09:56, schrieb Ferenc Kovacs: >> I think they just consider our license troublesome for exts as it seems too >> specific for php-src, and they only want to avoid possible license >> infringement. > > Just keep the scope of any possible PHP license change in mind. > > You got one player, a consumer/redistributor, that developed a hiccup > only recently. And, you have many, many other players that arranged > themselves with todays PHP license over so many years. Licensing changes > affect not only consumers but also all contributors. > > Any change would make literally hundrets of legal departement happy and > evaluate your ideas. Those legal departements begin their analysis on a > blank sheet of paper. They will not bother much, if at all, about the > input you got from your legal advisor. > > In a perfect world, you could do some tiny text changes to the license > without much hassle. In reality, this is a monster topic. Any rush can > cause massive harm. Amen. And it cannot be done without asking every single contributor. Let say it is an impossible task at this point, or very very hard. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org