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[nycphp-talk] Releasing Code

Joseph Crawford codebowl at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 19:49:09 EDT 2004


I am not an expert with pear but i believe if you are going to
distribute as a pearm package you should make it a tar.gz but you
should also include an xml file, i cant remember the name of it, so
that it can be installed by the pear command.


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:44:44 -0400, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> have you read the php license? if i am correct that license will allow
> anyone to sell your code without anything you can do, you might want
> to take a look at the GPL or LGPL licenses.  I mean if that is
> something you do not want happening.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:12:52 -0400 (EDT), Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg
> <adam at trachtenberg.com> wrote:
> > I'm interesting in releasing code for general consumption. Do people
> > have checklists of things they do?
> >
> > Specifically, how do you handle licensing? I want to release it under
> > the PHP license, version 3.0 (I think.) However, there's lots of odd
> > stuff in the licnese about bundling it with PHP that doesn't seem
> > relevant. Has anyone navigated this before?
> >
> > Also, is the best way to deliver something as a PEAR package? Tarball?
> > Both?
> >
> > As you can see, I'm not even sure what are the right questions to ask.
> >
> > -adam
> >
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