Re: Proposal for a new Extension: ext/gsl - GNU Scientific Library

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:21:19 +0100 "Dr. Volker M. Göbbels" <vmg@thinkphp-kunden.de> wrote: > Open Source is often joking about "commercial licensing crap". But > this is still worse: Has anyone ever thought about how ridiculous this > looks from a view point of "common human sense"? But that's really not > in the focus of this list ... erm I mean the license philosophy - not > the common human sense ;-)=) Common sense is subjective, and most of us have a different common sense than gnu common sense about library and how they can be used or linked ;). However, please note that has nothing to do with imposing licence but ease the enduser life. It's mostly due to the GPL licence itself and distribution. Ie we cannot provided binary pecl package, as it is linked with a non GPL library, the php lib. > Ok, now that this is clea, is there any extension repository I don't > know of which doesn't impose it's own licensing scheme on a > submission? Sourceforge? Or you may ask the GSL team. Maybe they will accept to publish your binder in the GSL project page and cvs. hth pierre