Re: New PrimeBase Media Streaming (PBMS) extension

hi Olivierm On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Olivier Hill <ohill@php.net> wrote: > Pierre, > > You might not like all that GPL/LGPL stuff and I do understand why. > However, the fact is that LGPL for an external library is fully > compatible with an extension distributed under the PHP License. I don't care about licenses but we decided that we accept packages within a set of licenses because they are consider safe. > Library vendors might want to protect themselves from companies taking > their code and close-sourcing it. If LGPL is what is needed for us to > get a hand on that code and make them feel safe about distributing it > under a "more liberal" license, I'm fully okay with it. > > Barry: If you are ready to move to a BSD license, that would be best. > However, if you need to stick to the GPL variants, LGPL will be > sufficient to host your PHP License extension on PECL. Be aware though > that the LGPL library cannot be "hosted" on PECL. Please don't misguide developers. LGPL v2 is fine, v3 is a huge unknown and different area. That's why I can't say (and won't say) that it is perfectly valid to use it with PHP. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org