[libvirt] Question about PHP licencing for libvirt-php (php-libvirt for Fedora)

Michal Novotny minovotn at redhat.com
Fri Mar 11 10:26:12 UTC 2011


On 03/11/2011 04:15 AM, Lyre wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 07:12 PM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> Well, I agree that LGPLv2+ license would be better. We need to wait 
>> for Lyre's and Radek's reply then. 
>
> I agree with Radek:
>
> > I prefer to use license that will allow widespread use of the 
> project and ensure that if someone needs some additional function 
> he/she will add them and share with others.
>
> Since I don't understand those license well, I also don't mind if you 
> guys change it to the suitable one.
>

So, is it OK to do what Daniel wrote about ? I mean this:

>  So we avoid the PHP license for our code then. Here's what we do
>
>  - Our code is licensed LGPLv2+
>  - Project is named/described  'libvirt bindings for PHP'
>  - RPM / tar.gz is named  php-libvirt  (this is in fact required by Fedora
>    RPM guidelines for php extensions)
>

Is that OK with you Radek and Lyre or any other idea about the licence?

Thanks,
Michal


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Michal Novotny<minovotn at redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat




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