hi Chris, On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> The sudden change had put me in a position that I personally can't > quickly resolve so I'm blocked from distributing source code. I would > appreciate if the upload requirements were reverted to their > historical behavior. I still haven't tracked down where there was any > pre-warning about such a hard restriction. Even if there was any > warning, its not surprising that questions are being raised now, given > the overwhelming flood of information in a typical developer's day. Well, is it that hard to add a license file? Would it help if I add it myself? OCI package is under a given license, it should not be a problem to push this license file. If it is, then there is maybe other issues with OCI and its license and that could worry me much more that this little change, which benefits all of us. > In the long term the strict upload enforcement probably won't be an > issue. > > Along with the revent/relaxation/enhancement to the pecl.php.net, the > upload name checks need to be changed to handle the naming issues > Hannes raised above. You can see his mongo package supplies a > LICENSE.md file. That's easy to fix and note was taken, it will be fixed as soon as possible. PR or patches welcome if we are not fast enough :) > I'm sure everyone wants their extensions to be widely available. > Having upload validation to warn about issues is entirely appropriate. And block for package having issues like version or license. That's not a IANAL move but a real issue we need to address and solve. > Preventing uploads purely because of issues with non-source downloads > and distribution packaging is obviously more contentious or this > thread might not exist. It raised into question what the purpose of > pecl.php.net is. To distribute extensions without any open questions about licenses and allow them to be distributed in one form or another. Any other project does the same. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
