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

At 11:54 AM 9/19/2001 -0400, mlwmohawk@mohawksoft.com wrote:

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.

Yeah that's good enough. Only the PHP extension part (the glue which is in the PHP CVS) needs to be under the PHP license. The library it links with can be LGPL.

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?

Yep.

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?

No religious war from us. It's just that Richard Stallman tends to come after us if the word GPL appears in our source tree :) Thanks. It looks like an interesting extension. Andi