Re: LGPL License on Net_LDAP

Jan Wagner wrote:

Hi, in mid february Lukas Smith contacted the developers of Net_LDAP about a license mismatch. On the PEAR website it was listed as GPL while the files contained the php license. This started a discussion about which license we should use for Net_LDAP. The php license seemed to be the one to go, but Alex Borges stated that this would break GPL programs which he develops. I'm not sure how that is the case.. - the linux kernel contains some BSD licenced code (which is AFAIK pretty much the same as the PHP licence.

As I use Net_LDAP in a closed source project we could not

make it GPL. So all of us concluded on using the LGPL as it would fit all of us. Today I changed the headers in all files to state that new license and got contacted by Stefan Neufeind noticing that there are "quite criticical interpretations of LGPL around". As we are all not much into licenses maybe this could get discussed here?

The 'intention' of the LGPL is to issolate libraries so thay may be used without the infection clauses of GPL.. - but force additions and modifications to be passed back to the author.. This tends to indicate an application using the methods and object instances would tend to be OK.. however If you where being strict about it, extending the class might be considered a derivative work.... from the IANAL department... Regards Alan

Jan

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