RE: [PEAR-DEV] Sortable table

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:25, Lukas Smith wrote: > > From: Tal Peer [mailto:tal@php.net] > > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:07 PM > > > GPL is permitted, just not recommended. > > For pecl, however, it is forbbiden since it really violates the GPL > (since > > it isn't compatible with the PHP license and extensions are considered > > "derieved work"). > > No, I think we should not allow (and i think it was even agreed upon) > GPL'ed code in PEAR. The main reason being that we still don't have an > official reply as to the question as to if the GPL extends itself > automatically onto PHP code that uses GPL'ed code. Well, we do have an official reply from RMS, where he basically tries to extend "linking" to also mean "execution of parsed code" (that was my interpretation of his reply). Most PHP people would disagree with that of course, but rather than taking this further we stay on the safe side and disallow GPL'ed code. We can all play the stubborn game. - Stig