Re: Package proposal : TVision

# demenev@gmail.com / 2005-04-26 23:29:25 +1100: > 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. > > 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? (IANAL, but) this is what FSF says, and I read it as "no, it wouldn't be acceptable": http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL : Q: If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that any program which uses it has to be under the GPL? A: Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991