Re: readline extension status?
| From: | Kristian Köhntopp | Date: | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:22:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: readline extension status? | ||
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James Moore wrote:
> IANAL but I cant see how writing code that interacts with certain libaries
> is illegal when their liciences are not compatible with ours. Its a loss on
> both sides if it ends up with not being able to resolve this (If anyone here
> has some legal training perhaps they could set us straight).
Writing the code is usually not the problem, but linking againt it
can be according to the GNU party line, if I understand that
properly. You'd not be able to distribute any precompiled modules
or PHP binaries with such code.
Kristian
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