Re: License question

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>wrote: > On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 01:22 +0200, Kevin Ingwersen wrote: > > Hey! > > > > I am not very good with English - its my second language, German my > > first - so I wanted to ask about something that has to do with > > redistribution. > > > > Currently, in my project I am configuring PHP and then compiling it, > > plus a few extensions (v8js, yar, uv, pthreads, PHP-CPP) to a set of > > static libraries (libphp5.a, libtsrm.a, libzend.a, libphp-v8js.a, …). > > In the end process, this is all combined, together with other > > libraries, into a dynamic library. > > > > This project is not public yet, since I dont know if: > > > > - I can actually link PHP into my dynamic library without tripping on > > any licensing? > > - That applies to all extensions using the PHP license? > > - I have to redistribute anything else but the headers? (of course, a > > copyright notice to php plus original headers of the main library and > > extension swould be distributed all together, excluded would be the > > actual binaries/utilities, phar, php, php-cgi, etc.) > > > > Would be great to know if I can work it that way or not! :) Because > > the least I want is to run against a wall… o.o > > > > > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in > the documentation and/or other materials provided with the > distribution. > > and > > 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > acknowledgment: > "This product includes PHP software, freely available from > <http://www.php.net/software/>". > > sound relatively clear. I'm not really getting whether you distribute > source or binaries. In general providing that licenses in some "about" > dialog or referring to it from your README or whatever should be fine. > If you can describe in more detail I assume that group@qhp.net (I'm no > member there can't speak for them) will help you ..,. but mind if you > really go into legal issues: Ask two lawyers and you receive three > answers. ;-) > > johannes > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Where does the group alias go to, anyway? --Kris