Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial
Date: 2003-08-04 16:42:41
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0308041041520.10507-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joe Conway wrote:

> scott.marlowe wrote:
> >>10.Fix license
> >
> > Looking at the license for PHP found here:
> >
> > http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt
> >
> > it would seem to be pretty much an apache style license that doesn't allow
> > you to relicense it without permission. but it looks BSD compatible.
>
> The issue was that plPHP as posted was claimed to be GPL, although there
> isn't any notice at all in the source that I saw.
>
> Does the PHP license require programs that dynamically link carry their
> license, similar to GPL (I didn't get that impression)? If not, then
> something like PL/PHP should be licensable under BSD.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's safe to link to. We could always as the PHP
guys themselves to be sure.

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