Re: Package proposal : TVision
| From: | Andrey Demenev | Date: | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:29:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Package proposal : TVision | ||
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2005/4/26, Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com>:
> If the GPL library has the same API as the BSD licensed version, we
> can safely link against the GPL'd version without being infected.
>
> Why? Because you can't impose the GPL on a public API that is not
> already GPL'd.
>
> This trick is used for the readline extension, which links against the
> BSD libedit as well as the GPL libreadline.
>
> --Wez.
>
The GPL'ed library's API can be considered a superset of the BSD one.
It has some additional functions. Would it be acceptable in PECL to
have code that uses these additional features?