Re: Licensing of things within PEAR

"Derek A. Neighbors" wrote: > > Stig, > > First I will say that if PEAR is PHP4 license minus the Zend clause I am > not sure if it is or is not GPL compatiable w/o rereading the license. > Assuming it not compatiable I think you would have a GPL violation. > (though I suppose there is room for debate) > > I would considering doing say > > include(/path/to/pear/DB.php); > > as NOT being a runtime activity. This is because really its appending > it to your code as it goes through. Though RMS would be the authority as > to whether this is the case or not. As far as I know, RMS could even claim that running GPL'ed code in PHP violates the GPL because the compiler and executor are covered by a non-GPL-compatible license. My point is that we don't have to accept his opinion in everything. If he wants to come after people mixing GPL'ed and PHP-licensed script code, let him. - Stig