Re: Re: peclweb /public_html package-new.php
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:57:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: peclweb /public_html package-new.php | ||
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> > > What's wrong with LGPL as a license?
> > >
> > PHP Group specified that we should, as a rule, avoid any license
> > containing the letters GPL (in that order).
> >
> The distinction is that it is fine to write an extension that links
> against an LGPL'ed library whereas you may not write a extension that
> exclusively links against a GPL'ed library. Well, you may, of course, but
> we can't host it in PECL. As for the extension code itself, I don't see
> any reason to make that LGPL'ed. Pick a BSD'ish license to be consistent
> with all the other extensions.
>
I don't see a good reason for it either, but it also doesn't seem harmful.
Though as Wez said, better safe than sorry.
-Sara