Re: midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:09:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline | ||
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Midgard, soon to use php4 is to be released GPL (according to their website
> www.midgard-project.org).
>
> How will this work; will it just be the patch to php4 that makes it INTO
> migard that will be GPL, or midgard+PHP that will be GPL.
The owner of GPLed code can grant third parties the right to
use the code with certain non-GPLed programs (i.e. PHP). The
merged result will inherit all license conditions from both
code bases (unless the owner of the code expressively states
something else). The result won't be solely under the GPL,
but under a (cumbersome and sometimes contradictionary) set
of conditions.
- Sascha