Re: readline extension status?

Richard Stallman wrote: That you don't distribute binaries does not change the fact that your source code is designed to include Readline in the program. You cannot do that, now that your license is incompatible with the GPL. --- Note that he's absolutely wrong (PHP does not rely on readline, it supports it, and it's perfectly ok for it to support it). However, as we told him, we're not going to fight him over this. Zeev At 15:22 28/12/2000, Kristian Köhntopp wrote:

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 -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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