Re: Re: Metaphone integration into PHP3 (fwd)

Including GPL'ed code binds us to one of the two licenses we offer. Strictly speaking, in order to comply with the GPL, we should have two distributions; one including GPL'ed code (bc and now metaphone) and one without this code. Tricky, tricky. - Stig On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > hi, > somebody in php3@ mantioned this "soundex" replacement function, and i > would like to make it an internal-module (like soundex is) - it's only a > few 100 lines of code! > > question is - is the license (see below) ok for us to put it into the main > cvs? > > > regards, > tc > > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" > Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 > Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:13:41 -0400 > From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> > To: Thies C. Arntzen <thies@digicol.de> > Subject: Re: Metaphone integration into PHP3 > > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:43:34PM +0200, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > > just playing with the Metaphone perl module you wrote... > > > > i would like to put that into the php3 scripting language (www.php.net). > > Yeah, go right ahead! I love seeing that piece of code used, because > I never do. > > ----snipp--- > > [from the Text::Metaphone(3) man page] > COPYRIGHT, et al. > Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Michael G Schwern. All Rights > Reserved. This program is free software; you can > redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as > Perl itself. > > Perl is licensed under both the Artistic License and GPL. Knock > yourself out. > > ---snipp---- > > > > -- > 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 >