PEAR and GPL (Was: [PEAR-DEV] Net_Geo_IP)
| From: | Christian Stocker | Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:44:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | PEAR and GPL (Was: [PEAR-DEV] Net_Geo_IP) | ||
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On 9/17/03 10:37 AM, Stig Bakken wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Christian Stocker wrote:Did you ever got an answer from RMS concerning this issue? AFAIK, I can't use GPL packages in non-gpl scripts, right? But if you're refering to distributing it with the PEAR infrastructure, you're (IMHO) right, that it isn't a legal issue. chreguHi Just because noone else mentioned it until now ;)Strictly speaking GPL is a problem only for extensions, not PHP code.It is documented and because it's basically a straight port its is released under the GPL, same as the perl module.GPL is a problem for PEAR.