Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > That means that it won't be possible to include PHP4 in linux > > distributions, like Debian. Or at least, not linked against gdbm. Actually > > that isn't that bad, I wanted to get rid of this gdbm dependency in the > > .debs for quite a while since it is deprecated :) But this doesn't make it > > a non-issue. > > Apache is not GPL'ed either. The PHP license is pretty much a clone of > Apache's license. Apache also optionally links against gdbm through the > mod_auth stuff. I don't see a difference. The PHP license may be compatible with GPL, just like the apache licence, but in the case of PHP there is more than one license: zend with QPL, which conflicts with it. > The Zend part is QPL'ed, so whatever the Debian guys do to distribute KDE > with the QPL'ed qt library, they can do for PHP with the QPL'ed Zend > library. The KDE licence will be compatible with QPL AFAIK (Knghtbrd worked a lot on this with the KDE guys, hey, help us here, too :)). That doesn't make the QPL compatible with the GPL of gdbm. Greg