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

Zeev Suraski wrote: > By releasing PHP 4.0 with the readline extension, we are *not* > violating any licenses. i still cannot agree here (from my legal understanding) as long as readline is the only thing to implement this interface the readline extension clearly qualifies as derivated work as it is in this case without doubt ment to be working with and only with readline and useless without it i agree that if the BSD stuff is compatible with the GNU readline lib at the source level (prototypes and such) this would be different unless one distributes binaries but this does not solve the general problem so i'd suggest to either stay away from GPLed stuff altogether or solve the compatibility issues but trying to redefiny the terms of use others have put on their code to fit our needs is a very bad idea IMHO