Re: CVS Account Request: mrioux
| From: | Chris Shiflett | Date: | Wed, 06 Nov 2002 02:31:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: CVS Account Request: mrioux | ||
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Out of curiosity - why is this?
I assume it is because such an extension would somehow be required to be covered under the GPL as well, but I don't understand that. Shouldn't it be possible for the PHP extension's code to be licensed any license and simply use a GPL library? The extension's code would be copyrighted by the author, correct? So, why can't the author decide what terms his/her code is licensed under?
Just curious - I've heard this before and have never understood.
Chris
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
libsmbclient is gpl'ed, correct? We cannot accept extensions that are written specifically against a single GPL'ed library. Sorry. -Rasmus