Hi! > Debian began to send requests to change PHP license for the PHP > Extension arguing that the PHP License is only valid for PHP itself.
That's like saying Apache license is only valid for Apache httpd, and Mozilla license is only valid for Mozilla Firefox. Makes little sense to me. OTOH, I don't think anything really prevents PECL extension authors to dual-license their extensions under whatever Debian would like, if they want so. People that aren't extension authors probably can't do much here though. But, since PHP itself is under PHP license, and extensions probably use substantial parts of PHP code and thus arguably can be considered as derived works, all the limitations that PHP License puts on derived works would apply to them still. Though not pretending to understand how it really works legally, I guess Debian should have some lawyers that understand it. So I guess I'm not sure what we can really do here or what Debian wants to happen. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
