Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable
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- Subject: Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable
- From: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:54:37 +0200
- Message-id: <20140626115436.GB26274@0d.be>
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Hello Ondřej, hi -legal,
> One more note: PHP is *not* compatible with GPL[1]. If you have
> sources that combine PHP-licensed source with GPL-licenced
> source the result is not distributable. That includes linking GPL
> library to PHP licenced source (e.g. libreadline as most notable
> example of GPL library).
Do I read this correctly as there is a problem with any PHP binding to
a GPL library?
If there's a problem, would it be enough to add an exception to the
library, just like it happens with OpenSSL?
Fred
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