Re: The Untouchables

On 31.03.2008, at 13:02, Steph Fox wrote:

OK, so I just put in 140-something module updates... manually, grumble. I (hopefully) avoided anything in core, whether that be PHP 4 or 5 - the way we version core modules is going to need much more thought. Apart from those, here's a list of the PECL extensions I can't or won't touch. It seems that the CLA I hadn't spotted in pecl/sam was the *only* reason I couldn't commit all 5000+ lines in a single shot back there, so I'm a little bitter about these right now: daffodildb (proprietary license) ibm_db2 (IBM extension) muscat (GPL'd) mqseries (JAWA Management Software GmbH???) pdo_ibm (IBM extension) pdo_ids (IBM extension) pdo_informix (IBM extension) sam (CLA'd) sdo (CLA'd IBM extension) smbc (GPL'd) tclink (LGPL'd) I should probably not have worried about dealing with tclink... but I've very little idea where I stand with the rest, apart from the CLA'd and proprietary ones obviously.

So GPL shall go, LGPL is alright. The mqseries stuff seems to be BSD, so also no issue. Proprietary is a no go just like GPL. This leaves the CLA'ed stuff. The relevant authors should make sure they keep up with cleanups like this if they want to have a chance to keep the CLA'ed stuff in PECL idea alive (or under the radar). regards, Lukas