Re: Re: New PHP extension
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:17:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: New PHP extension | ||
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:18:29 -0400
denials@gmail.com (Dan Scott) wrote:
> On 8/25/05, Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sadly, rpm is a GPL'd project so we can't take it into PECL.
> >
> > --Wez.
>
> Does this restriction apply even if Andrew's implementation just
> pulls the headers from the RPM file without using any GPLed
> libraries?
If it does not use librpm and friends, there is no problem )unless
the RPM format is somehow covered by the GPL, but then I'm missing
a new viral part of the GPL ;)
--Pierre