Re: Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:55:07PM +0100, Stig Venaas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:16:14AM +0100, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -0000, Sam Liddicott wrote: > > > > > > If I were to write a proxy library which could integrate with various > > > read-line style libraries - lets say just the GNU one for now to save time, > > > and er... released this proxy under LGPL, surely PHP could use my proxy and > > > thus make use of GNU's GPL'd readline. > > > > No, not if the proxy is linked into both php and gettext. > > > > GPL can only be linked to other GPL code, or code that is licensed under > > a GPL compatible license. > > If our extension is written to support a non-GPL readline clone (say a > BSD licensed one), and it then accidentally works with the GNU readline > shared library, that can't be our problem, or? Correct. It's not a php problem as long as php is not distributed in a binary form with this module compiled in. -- Ragnar Kjørstad Zet.no