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Author Re: [PEAR-QA] A question of license
Justin Patrin

2007-07-06, 10:00 pm

On 7/6/07, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote:
> Laurent,
>
>
> You don't put PHP in the product name itself (PEAR_Info), so it is ok. Just having the string "PHP" somewhere in the code doesn't matter.
>


However you should really switch to another license as the PHP
licenses are not compatible with the GPL. You can't use PHP licensed
code as part of a GPL project.

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Justin Patrin
Sebastian Mendel

2007-07-07, 8:00 am

Justin Patrin schrieb:
> On 7/6/07, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote:
>
> However you should really switch to another license as the PHP
> licenses are not compatible with the GPL. You can't use PHP licensed
> code as part of a GPL project.


i am not a lawyer, and i am not familiar with this, but:

it is not important what software is used, but what is bundled, or?

and

i cannot write an application licensed under the terms of (L)GPL if the
program is written f.e. with .NET and utilizing some library from .NET
(which are not under LGPL)? same for Java ...

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Sebastian
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