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

Michael Stearne wrote: > > Can commerical package be in PEAR? They don't necessarily have to be in the PHP > Group distrobutions, but can they be submitted? We may make room for them in the name space, but we won't distribute packages that are not open source from the pear.php.net web site. > If so, can we assume the opposite is true? Can commerical outfits can distribute > commerical and OpenSource packages found in PEAR? (Assuming they make the correct > deals with the commerical owners of PEAR packages) Similar to any Linux distro? In the end it is up to each package author what license his or her package has. IMHO the best thing will be using a wording like "this package can be distributed under the same terms as PHP itself" as a default, but once again, we're not going to force people as long as they stay within the (IMHO pretty wide) definition of open source. If someone wants to make their package GPL, LGPL, MPL or whatever, fine. If they put a commercial license on it, we won't distribute it from our site. Maybe we can work something out so commercial packages can at least be registered, but for downloading etc. you will be referred to another site. > > However, I plan on building a set of FAST packages for use by our > > What are FAST packages? It was just an example, FAST is the company I work for, and we're using PHP to interface with our search engine software. - Stig