Re: Re: New financial functions package

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:10:09 +0000, Helgi Þormar <helgi@trance.is> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 03:45, Ryan King wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Alejandro Pedraza wrote: > > > > > Ignatius Reilly <ignatius.reilly@free.fr> escribió: > > >> There is a good package doing just this on PHP Classes: > > >> > > >> http://phpclasses.goelette.net/browse/package/892.html > > > > > > Yes, initially the idea I had was to base my work on that class, but it > > > turns out it's GPLed and I haven't been able to contact the author to > > > join > > > forces and to ask him if he would change the licence, so I'm starting > > > from > > > scratch. > > > > What's wrong with GPL? I'm pretty sure you can release PEAR packages as > > GPL. > > No he can't, see PEAR Groups news post about this way back. > A quick explanation: LGPL is OK for PEAR, GPL is not. GPL would mean *all* of the released app must be GPL, meaning that anyone who writes code which uses the package must release their code as well. LGPL only says if you alter the code you have to release it. If you use it in something else, that's ok. -- Justin Patrin