Re: New PrimeBase Media Streaming (PBMS) extension

Hi Barry, The other solution is to convince the library distributor to change the license to LGPL. Yet again the library won't be hosted on php.net even with LGPL, but you will be able to distribute the extension with a PHP license. Best regards, Olivier On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Andrey Hristov <php@hristov.com> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> Hi Barry, >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Barry Leslie >> <Barry.Leslie@primebase.com> wrote: >> >>>> There is one question for you, which comes from >>>> http://pecl.php.net/account-request.php : what >>>> license is used for the >>>> PBMS client library? >>>> >>> The PBMS client library uses the GNU GPL v2 license . >> >> GPL is not compatible with the PHP License. It is not allowed to use a >> GPL library with a PHP licensed extension. >> >> Cheers, > > You need an exception from the library developer, like the MySQL FOSS > Exception for libmysql. In any case the library can't stay at php.net, only > your extension, if you get this exception. > > Andrey > > -- > PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- http://www.olivierhill.ca/