Re: [PHP-DEV] License Choice: RE: [PHP-DEV] readline extension status? From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 12/28/00

At 21:09 28/12/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>But that isn't true. The GPL is compatible with the PHP license in that a
>GPL'ed program can take parts of PHP and include it. Which clause in the
>PHP license are you sauing prevents this?

But that's obvious! The BSD license can be summarized in pretty much one
sentence - 'take this and do whatever you want with it'.

The problem is in the other direction - PHP including GPL'd software. What
Stallman has in mind is that the GPL will become wider and wider. How does
he want to get to this goal? By the contagious nature of the GPL.

Licensing the same piece of software under both the BSD license ('do
whatever you want!') and GPL ('thou shalt do this and that and that')
doesn't give Stallman anything, because people will ALWAYS use the 'do
whatever you want' license if they have to.

This whole discussion was sparked because of the (apparent) problems PHP
has when it interfaces with GPL'd software. Obviously, someone can write a
GPL'd piece of code for PHP or above PHP, but this has nothing to do with
the subject.

Zeev 

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Zeev Suraski <zeev <email protected>>
CTO &  co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/

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