Re: Re-Releasing PEAR packages under the BSD license

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:34:02PM +0100, Christian Weiske wrote: > Sylvain, > > > > 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 > > I assume you do not modify the PEAR code and just use it as it comes. > Doing that is legal IMO. Well, I am pretty sure that, when licenses are incompatible, it is not legal to make use of a library in your project, even unmodified. Maybe you heard of the troubles some GPL'd packages face when using the (incompatible) OpenSSL library. Distributions usually have to recompile such apps using GnuTLS, when possible. For the Arch VCS, for example, HTTPS support was disabled until recently, when 'neon' (the WebDAV library) offered to use GnuTLS as an alternative to OpenSSL. In any case, using the modified BSD license would clarify the situation :) -- Sylvain