Re: ZeroC Ice Extension

On 26/01/16 20:59, Joe George wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > My name is Joe George and I work for ZeroC (https://zeroc.com). > ZeroC’s Ice is an open source RPC framework licensed under GPLv2 and > is used by various open source projects (for example Mumble). > > Ice for PHP is currently available though repos that we host (Ubuntu, > Red Hat, etc.) as well as in the main Debian and Ubuntu repos. We > would like to add (and maintain) Ice to PECL. > > Since Ice is GPLv2 I’m not sure how this applies to your rules as > stated on https://pecl.php.net/account-request.php as this will > not a > be a wrapper. What dow you meant by "this will not be a wrapper"? Browsing through the repo, it seems that this is not a library but rather a "protocol" implemented in various languages? > ``` Note: wrappers for GPL (all versions) or LGPLv3 libraries will > not be accepted. Wrappers for libraries licensed under LGPLv2 are > however allowed while being discouraged. ``` > You can view the source code on GitHub at: > https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice. Note that we have not done > any PECL > packing yet, as we want to see if we can/should get an account > first. Yeah, of course what's applying to wrappers of GPL code is even more so for GPL code itself, i.e. I'm sorry you cannot distribute this extension (as long as it's licensed with GPL or LGPLv3) through PECL. -- Regards, Mike