Re: License question
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:27:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: License question | ||
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 skettler@php.net wrote:
I've just received a PECL bug (#3868) concerning the crack extension. There seems to be a new cracklib version released on SourceForge (2.8.2) that breaks compiling. Sadly, somone has taken the cracklib's artistic licensed code and released it as GPL. This seems wrong.Yes, although I do think it's allowed...
Is it acceptable for a PECL extension to support linking against a GPL library? Wouldn't that need to make the extension (and also PHP) licensed under the GPL?No, this is not acceptable unfortunately. Although I do not know how this applies if you can use the same extension linking against a different (non-GPL) library that provides the same API. But then again, I'm not a lawyer :) Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org