Re: [PHP4BETA] php and MS SQL Server....

Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello Michael, > > On 02-Mar-00 22:05:27, you wrote: > > >> > >> Ah, that's better, because what Rasmus has been saying is that PEAR > >> packages would be forced into being Open Source to be accepted. > >> > > >Huh? What is the big problem? PEAR (from what I understand) is just a central > > You have to loose control of your developments by making them Open Source > to have your code accepted. > Where is that said? Is this just from the current conversation? Because I just didn't see it as that. I may contribute something to an archive but I can still retain rights to it, use a license like the Netscape Public License or Sun's Community License. OTOH, I don't understand why you would contribute a piece of code to a site and care what people do with it? Why did you contribute it in the first place? You can always retain certain rights to that software. For instance not allowing others to package it and call it their own. Bottom line: 95% of the code produced in the world is not created for resale, PEAR and CPAN and OpenSource allows this code to be used and built on to create a better end product for everyone. The more sites and the more code that is available to be built on the better for everyone. > > > Rasmus and Stig made clear that packages need to be made Open Source to be > accepted. > Rasmus is this the case? If not what licenses are allowed for the packages in PEAR? > > >is in PEAR and you say it can be distributed freely, that is not necessarily > >saying no Metabase has to be developed on a CVS on pear.php.net and it is > >OpenSource. > > Rasmus and Stig want to push the idea that packages to be accepted in the > main PEAR repository have to be made Open Source and the source control > will be put under they CVS repository, not the original authors repository > if it exists. > > Rasmus, is this true? Michael