Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/msession CREDITS Makefile

> Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> and the fact that the source is licensed under the GPL. > > which is not a bad thing in the first place but needs > an additional statement that you give special permission > with php and especially the zend engine as these are not yet > compatible with the gpl The extension should not be GPL. I will change that right now. > > if the software you based your extension on is under the > gpl too, then the copyright holder of that piece of software > has to give the same permission, otherwise it is currently not > really possible to legaly distribute the extension, at least > not as part of the php repository itself The Library is licensed under the Library version of the GPL which should be OK. If that is not good enough I will write an exception for PHP as Zend does. > > the situation might be looked at differently when you publish > your code as a standalone extension (and one might argue that > even including the source into the php source itself is ok > as long as you do not distribute binaries that have it > compiled in) > > but right now php does not provide any extensions that rely > on GPLed software (ext/readline will now work with BSD code to) > and IMHO we should not allow any new GPL issues sneak in unless > we have eventualy solved the license incompatibility issues LGPL should be enough, shouldn't it? My objective here is to contribute a neat functionality to PHP. I don't want a religeous war over licenses. Tell me what you want and I'll do it. OK? > > > -- > Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de > +49-711-99091-77 > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net