Re: Account Request

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alexander Kahl <akahl@iconmobile.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:39 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alexander Kahl <akahl@iconmobile.com> wrote: >> >> >> And not the underlying libraries. A library can be lgpl (2 or 3), BSD, >> >> MIT or the likes (but not GPL), and the PHP extension can be under the >> >> PHP or BSD License. There is absolutely no problem in such cases. >> > >> > Excuse me if I churn up questions that have been discussed before but >> > where lies the actual problem of allowing developers which license to >> > choose for their own code as long as it's compatible with the PHP >> > License and a Free Software License itself? >> >> BSD *IS* Free and *IS* compatible with the FSF Licenses. > But it's not copyleft. Anyone can take your code and make something > proprietary with it, not contributing back to the community.. see > MS-Windows' TCP/IP stack or MacOS (both built on BSD code). MS didn't > even care to give credit to the original author(s) as the license > demands. > Why should I write code for corporates in my free time? How do you think PHP and PECL has been developed? In our free time and anyone is Free to use it how and where he likes to. That's true Freedom (</pollitics>). Now, can we move on please? We have proposes alternatives, choose one and let move back to code :) Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org