Re: Account Request

hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alexander Kahl <akahl@iconmobile.com> wrote: >> I would rather go with another license. As lgplv2 is fine (not desired >> but fine), I really have doubts about the v3. If you like a very >> liberal license, use the BSD one. But I still one question, what's the >> problem with the PHP License 3.01? > > Why should the LGPLv3 make a difference here? Both licenses (v2 and v3) > express the same exception on their scopes for the binary results after > linking to software under a different license. > I don't like paper tiger ("liberal") licenses because they don't ensure > perpetual protection of the freedom of software users. Either one of the > BSD license and PHP license enables entities to republish / reuse code > under arbitrary conditions, i.e. non-free software licenses. It's > impossible for me to justify that. I'm not willing to argue about true Freedom here. I will not agree to introduce yet another license in pecl. Please choose between PHP, (new) BSD or at the very least case, LGPLv2. If you won't any of those, then you can always go in any of these OSS hosting sites like sourcefourge. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org