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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:46:31PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 01:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:03:57PM +0100, Radek Hladik wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>>Well, I agree that LGPLv2+ license would be better. We need to wait for
> >>>Lyre's and Radek's reply then.

[snip]

> I don't know what should we do but I guess having the dual-licensing
> could be the best thing. We can't have the project name php-libvirt
> because of the PHP license :(

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)

Regards,
Daniel
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