On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:25:08PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:17, Henning Makholm wrote: > >So it seems. However, beware of works that include php and mysql as > >well as third-party code with the original un-excepted GPL. > I could see the following as being a problem: > a) foo.php under PHP 3.0 License using MySQL and a GPL PHP module > I'm not sure if we have any GPL PHP modules in Debian, and if we do > checking dependencies isn't that hard. The easiest fix would be for > foo.php to be licensed under a GPL-compatible license. What would constitute a "GPL PHP module"? There are many PHP extensions (compiled DSOs) in Debian that are based on GPL-compatible code, but none, AFAIK, that are distributed under the GPL. (I think this would be a license violation in its own right, regardless of what MySQL libs, if any, were used.) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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