Re: Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline
| From: | Anil Madhavapeddy | Date: | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:23:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline | ||
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Quoting Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>:
> However, if your code is compatible with a GNU library, which is, in turn,
> compatible with some other library (commercial, BSD) that is legal to link
> with PHP, then things change. Obviously, this all story about encouraging
> the users to break the license is no longer relevant, and the whole
> bogus-to-begin-with story of not allowing to release code that is
> 'compatible with a certain library' becomes rediculous.
>
This whole affair is turning into an alarming waste of time as well;
if this were something like the mysql module, then it would be a lot
more worrying, but how many people use the _readline_ module with PHP?
I'm sure all two of them would find an alternative if it were to
disappear :-)
--
Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>