Re: Could some kind soul review these patches please.
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:08:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Could some kind soul review these patches please. | ||
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> At 02:56 14/12/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >But it is less blatant. The PHP+Zend license that PHP ships under is
> >incompatible with the GPL. Shipping a module alongside a package that
> >the module is not allowed to be linked into doesn't work.
> >
> >The PEAR license, once PEAR gets separated from PHP would not have the
> >Zend clause and would thus be compatible with the GPL.
>
> Huh? That's wrong as well - the BSD license which PHP uses is incompatible
> with the GPL. Just like the APL is incompatible with the GPL. It's either
> we go back to the GPL (which we won't), or we face the consequences. The
> Zend license plays no role here.
With the dropped advertising clause the APL is compatible with the GPL.
-Rasmus