Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

From: Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:24:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns
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At 23:14 20/07/99 , bruce@perens.com wrote:
From: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> What you're saying is that you may not use GPL'd software in conjunction with non GPL software, from a user's standpoint. That's completely absurd in my opinion. Fixing your license language to be OSD-compliant is a much simpler issue than GPL-compatibility, and thus I hope you deal with fixing the license language first.
What's OSD-compliance? The QPL is acceptable by just about everybody in question, including the fairly restrictive Debian and opensource.org. It fits our purposes like a glove. It's very very different from the GPL by nature, since the GPL is a copyleft license, and this one isn't (it retains special rights for the original authors, which is exactly what we want). Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il

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