RE: [PHP-DEV] Totally Blue Sky

From: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:54:08 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Totally Blue Sky
Groups: php.dev 
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Hi! > I'm not sure you would be able to distribute a commercial > application that is built around PHP commercially, could you? > Isn't that what the GPL protects against? Well, PHP is just distributed as a cgi-application, with any modules compiled however you want. There are no modifications to php whatsoever. The application doesn't use _any_ php-code, so I don't think there is a GPL (or any license, for that matter) violation. You could see this as an application starting an executable (php), and displaying the results. Rather the same as typeing './php -f filename.php > filename.html' and then viewing filename.html (even though a file is never actually generated). I see no licensing problems, but perhaps I'm misstaken. I've just read the file LICENSE again, and I see no objections! Cheerio, Marc.

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