Re: cvs: pear /PECL/smbc CREDITS IMPORTANT LICENSE Makefile.in config.m4 package.xml php_smbc.h smbc.c /PECL/smbc/tests 001.phpt 002.phpt

There are GPL'ed PECL modules? Hrm, so there is. I don't think we can allow those. I am aware of the clause in the manual, but it was written mostly for the PEAR stuff. I did add a GPL warning in there a while ago. But the problem here is that the act of linking a GPL'ed library into both Apache and PHP violates the GPL. At least that is the view of the FSF. I don't really agree with that. You are correct that distributing the source code only through PEAR is not a direct violation, but I think we are splitting hairs as that code can not be used without violating the license. -Rasmus On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > There are already GPL'ed modules in CVS and the pear site explicitly > says that the GPL is allowed as a license. According to the GPL, it > is allowed since the GPL'ed parts are added by 'phpize', which is part > of the compile (and the compile tools may be proprieatry). > > The module may not be distributed along with non-gpled code (php > headers and stuff) which is not the case at the mkoment. and it may > also not be distributed in binary form. Downloading the sources and > then running phpize locally over it should be allowed though. > > Jelmer > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:47:17PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote about 'Re: [PEAR-CVS] cvs: > pear /PECL/smbc CREDITS IMPORTANT LICENSE Makefile.in config.m4 package.xml php_smbc.h smbc.c > /PECL/smbc/tests 001.phpt 002.phpt': > > I don't know if we can accept this. The Apache/PHP license is not GPL > > compatible which means that it is a GPL violation to link libsmbclient > > into PHP. This extension does exactly that. For user-space PHP stuff in > > PEAR we can accept the GPL as a license, but I don't think we can for PECL > > stuff for this reason. > > > Unless someone can come up with some way around this, I'll have to ask you > > to put this somewhere else. > > > -Rasmus > > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > > ctrlsoft Thu Aug 22 17:44:33 2002 EDT > > > > Added files: > > > /pear/PECL/smbc CREDITS IMPORTANT LICENSE Makefile.in config.m4 > > > package.xml php_smbc.h smbc.c > > > /pear/PECL/smbc/tests 001.phpt 002.phpt > > > Log: > > > > Add SMB Client PEAR PECL module. Note that this code is GPL'ed (depends > > > on GPL'ed libsmbclient). > > > > -- > Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@nl.linux.org> - > http://nl.linux.org/~jelmer/ > Development And Underdevelopment: > http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110231/ > Listening to Error: The server (moosicd) doesn't seem to be running. > 02:15:26 up 8 days, 40 min, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >