Re: Fw: [ cracklib-Support Requests-1165808 ] CrackLib license transition

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 kettler@gmx.net wrote: > maybe someone can jump in and provide the neccessary details (I'm not that firm when it > comes to licensing). > > Why does php have an issue with GPL'd code? There's no issue > using php with all of the various other libraries it is > compiled with, why is cracklib any different? "PHP does not link with any other GPL libraries. And actually it's a libraries GPL license that forbids it to be used in PHP, not the other way around. The only extension that links against GPL library is readline, but that's fine as there is a drop-in replacement available under the name 'libedit' (which is BSD style licenced)." (IANAL) Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org