Re: Extension proposal: Zint barcode

On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 15:35 +0100, jean-mathieu plagnard wrote: > My question is > Can I include my 'Zint extension for PHP' within the "official" Zint > release tarball > (with cooperation of Zint team) As long as you follow the PHP License there's no issue from PHP-side but the release will contradict itself in the licensing, due to requirements in the GPL contradicting them from PHP License. http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt > What kind of solution could you give me in goal to introduce "Zint > barcode" to the PHP comunity. As it is a library GPL is a bad choice for them, unless they want to make a political statement. For a library LGPL is better. Many people here even prefer BSD licenses. (GPL limits the usage of the library to GPL-like applications, which makes it hard to be a "standard", libraries using other licenses can be combined with other software more easily, while licenses like LGPL still guarantee the "freedom" of the library ...) If they don't want to change the license they might add an exception, similar to what Oracle does with MySQL: http://mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ (please mind that MySQL is using GPL2 whereas Zint is using GPL3 so things might be different GPL3 is way more complex) To be on the safe side the best, unfortunately, is to talk to a lawyer as licensing law is complicated and a mess in regards to different nations and applicable laws ... johannes