Re: License question
| From: | (steinm) | Date: | Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:36:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: License question | ||
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:19:50AM +0000, skettler@php.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> 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, Yes.
Uwe
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