Re: Licensing and errors when loading module

From: Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 17:49:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Licensing and errors when loading module
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Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Hi! > > I've written an SMB Client (Windows/Samba file sharing) module for > PHP4/Pear. The module uses libsmbclient, which is published under the > GPL. Could you post the API or cursory usage? I found such module very interesting. > The FSF site states that the PHP license is incompatible with the GPL > and it should thus be illegal to load GPL'ed DSO's in PHP? The pear > site states that pecl modules can be 'all open source licenses'. Well, the GPL conforms what we actually call "open source license" :-) Tomas V.V.Cox

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