Re: licensing question
| From: | John Coggeshall | Date: | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: licensing question | ||
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On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 19:25, Stéphane Degré wrote:
> I am currently developing a PHP extension based on a C-library. The
> C-library is under GPL license.
> Must the PHP extension be under GPL license too?
> If not, which license should I choose for the PHP extension?
> If my extension must be under GPL license, can it be hosted on PECL or not?
Without getting into the issues of if your extension has to be GPL or
not, I can tell you that it won't be hosted in PECL if it is written
against a GPL library.
John
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