Re: Re-Releasing PEAR packages under the BSD license

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:54:48AM +0100, Christian Weiske wrote: > Sylvain, > > > Currently I'm a bit unsure about whether I can or cannot use packages > > under the PHP license in my application. > > You can use the packages without problems in your application, since GPL > is more strict than the PHP license is. The other way round would not work. Hi, I don't think so. I think both licenses have requirements, but the PHP License requirements are not a subset of the requirements of the GPL. This is independant to whether the GPL has more or less requirements than the PHP License. This extra requirements of the PHP License are related to the use of the name 'PHP'. This is not in the GPL, so licenses are incompatible IMHO. The modified BSD's requirements are a subset of the GPL, so both licenses are compatible. Incompatible means I cannot combine the two kinds of work. You can use GPL'd code with (compatible) mBSD'd code - the resulting work will be under the GPL, be it in one way or another. But you cannot legally combine GPL'd code with incompatible code (hence why incompatible licenses are referenced at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses). This link has some more information about it: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible All in all, I don't think I can't legally use HTML_QuickForm in Savane :/ -- Sylvain