License

Not sure if anyone has watched this yet, but Matt’s latest video contains important misconceptions about the GPL. Matt says (5:22): * So a common misconception about the GPL is that, like let’s say, I’m hired to make a theme for a client. Does that theme fall under the GPL? And the answer is, no! Because it’s not being distributed. Uhm, when something is distributed it’s available for download to the public, you’re selling it in a store, you know, it’s sort of mass-distribution....

I’m not exactly neutral when it comes to anything remotely related to the GPL license. Personally, there’s a bit of a GPL scare when I see code that’s released under that license and I usually try to avoid it. But (primarily) due to RoundCube being licensed under the GPL, I think I do know what it entails to release code using this license. In addition to that I have read a lot about the license, I even wasted spent three hours one night to listen to RMS....

Despite Mail_Queue being a PHP4-compatible package, I still like to use it on current projects because it is so easy to implement and because it gets the job done. So, over the last weeks (and especially since PHP moved from CVS to SVN :-)), I put in a little time, and especially with the help of Ken, we managed to push out the 1.2.3 release today. What’s new? changed license from PHP to the (New) BSD license This is good news for two reasons....