Re: Re: New Extension Proposal/Idea
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:16:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: New Extension Proposal/Idea | ||
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Matthew Fonda wrote:
> So if I understand this correctly, my extension could be licensed with a
> PHP license, but the libraries it uses are GPL. This should be fine
> since the libraries it uses are not put into PECL, just the extension
> code is?
You can build an extension that links against an LGPL'ed library and that
extension can go into PECL with a PECL-compatible license like the PHP
license. That is not the case for a GPL'ed library because the GPL treats
anything that links against it as a derived work.
-Rasmus