Re: Pear into Commercial Aplication (But Open Source)

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:29:56 -0200, Jacques <iacques@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > People, I have a *doubt*. > > I can to commercialize an application that depends on a package of pear, > one framework for example? > > Ex. My framework use Data_Object, HTML_QuickForm, HTML_Template_Sigma, > etc. They are the base (like a kernel) of my FrameWork that it contains > another classes (Page Class, PopUp Class, Menu Class, etc). > > I can commercialize it since that under the license of the PHP, GPL, etc? > > Jacques, from Brazil. > You cannot include GPLed code in a closed source commercial application. You *can* include PHP or LGPLed code in a closed source commercial application as long as you give all of your changes to the PEAR code back to the PEAR community. If you're distributing the application you also have to host the PEAR code you used and allow users to download the source. -- Justin Patrin