Re: License Question
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:42:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: License Question | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.general |
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On Thu Jul 17, 2003 at 03:2258PM -0500, Joe Stump wrote:
> I'm creating an application that is closed source using PHP.
> Specifically I'm using PEAR::DB and PEAR::Log (as well as Smarty) and I
> was wondering what my restrictions were.
>
> AFAICS it's OK to use PEAR in closed source applications as long as:
>
> 1.) I'm not charging for PEAR
> 2.) I'm not encrypting or encoding PEAR
> 3.) I give the people I sell my application to a copy of the source and
> license
>
> Am I correct? Smarty is LGPL, which allows me to distribute unmodified
> versions of Smarty with my application. So my question is: How about
> PEAR?
This depends on the license of the package you want to use. But as both
DB and Log are available under the PHP License, I don't see a problem in
redistributing it under the conditions you already listed.
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