Re: licenses, etc
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:53:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: licenses, etc | ||
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At 01:42 PM 12/18/00 +1100, Paul McGarry wrote:
Alex Black wrote:I think when the LGPL/GPL talk about linking they are talking about run-time linking too (shared libraries) and particularly in using libraries such as libc in an application. This is pretty much where binary cloud would step into the picture as it is supposed to be a libc of PHP and there is definitely run time linking going on although it's on a scripting level and not on what usually is referred to as linking. Anyway I just mentioned this to Alex to get him thinking on the issue a bit. It sounded to me to begin with that the GPL is not exactly what he needs but something close to the LGPL (maybe a bit more protective). There are probably other licenses around which are more suitable. Don't get yourself pressured by GPL fanatics :) Anyway, I'm not an expert on all the zillion different licenses. Check out www.opensource.org. They have quite a variety there and they might even explain some of them. If not, then usually the sites referred to explain their licenses. Good luck! AndiIf you go with GPL you force anyone using binarycloud to GPL anyadditions,which will not sit well with all prospective paying non-technicalclients. <snippity> At the moment, I have no actual basis for comparison besided the "vague memory" stuff I said above, I'll read the LGPL, and post tomorrow :) The major difference between the GPL and LGPL is to do with 'linking' is it not? As your package is interpretted PHP I'd have thought that anything either licence has to say on linking is somewhat irrelevant.
Also I'd be rather wary of including a single licence in your root directory (ie the GPL) where that licence does not seem to apply to some of the code within the distribution (eg the Metabase stuff). At the very least your copying notice in the root directory should state that your binarycloud distribution is an aggregate of packages available under different licences. Paul. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net--- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/