Re: License Question

This should probably be a FAQ - anyone out there on the PEAR web team that can add this to the FAQ? Q. Can I use PEAR classes in my closed source application? A. Yes, but you must follow these rules: .... --Joe On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 02:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:

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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