Re: Account Request

On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Pierre Joye wrote:

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.

I agree with Pierre. And, to be honest, the most free license on the planet is public domain (which, unfortunately, isn't legal in all countries). The community has decided that LGPLv2, New BSD and PHP licenses are the only acceptable ones we'll accept to PEAR/PECL. If you don't agree with those terms you can choose between a few options: 1.) Set up your own PECL/PEAR channel and distribute your package that way under whatever license you choose. 2.) Host it on SF, Google Code, etc. 3.) Submit an RFC to accept different licenses, reasons why that makes sense, etc. and put it to a vote. --Joe