Re: A note about licenses (the GPL)

Wez Furlong wrote:

An extension that links to an LGPL library is fine, but an extension that links to a "regular" GPL library will cause your extension to be GPL. PHP cannot distribute the GPL stuff without risking contamination from its viral license. There is a whole load of nasty, murky, headache stuff associated with interpreting the GPL and under which circumstances it applies and how far to interpret the meaning of linkage and so on. [...] So, we don't want it. [...] We do, however, welcome other liberal open licenses, especially BSD style licenses. Our favourite license is the PHP License (of course!) and we strongly recommend that hosted PECL extensions be licensed in this way.

thats what i implemented in PECL_Gen so far :) PHP, BSD, LGPL (and a TODO item for GPL with a prepared exception clause ...) -- Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net>