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

Michael Stearne wrote: > > Manuel Lemos wrote: > > > 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? We won't distribute packages that are not open source. That is not to say we want to prevent people from making them, but open sourced code is what we focus on. We'll allow anything that passes by the Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). > > >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? This is a misconception. We will _offer_ CVS space to PEAR contributors, but nobody will be forced to use it, that's against the whole idea. GNOME does the same thing. Someone must really think I'm on Spetznaz's payroll after all. - Stig