Re: license chaos, PHP vs GPL

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> wrote: > (...) > A: One version with no deps. This follows the GPL and is the most legally > correct option. > > B: One version with deps and one without. This is legally dubious but > allows for one-stop installs. > > C: One version with deps, but that will still work if the deps are removed > from the tarball and are installed on the system via rpms, debs, etc. > This is also legally dubious but will let Fedora do it's thing. We are trying to avoid that "soon". ;-) > Currently, rc2 is broken if the deps are removed. Just curious - but does that mean I can't install PEAR and Net_SMTP through your package manager on FC? If I could, what keeps you from adding them as dependencies to the "RoundCube.rpm"? Can you fix the dependencies in the package? I know that Debian has a php-pear package - I wonder how that works since it's under the PHP license as well. Till