On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> At 09:58 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > >I've never said that anything you distribute with PHP4 is problematic due > >to copyrights and licenses. I'm just saying that this license of PHP4 > >unfortunatelly prevents wider full-featured software distribution, like > >Debian :( > > > I think you're wrong there. The PHP license is very close to the Apache > license which is distributed with Debian as far as I know. It is in general > more free than the PHP 3.0 license. > And checkout http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html it lists vendors that > ship the QPL'ed libQt. > The list includes Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD etc. So I really don't see where > the problem is. The problem here is the GPL and the QPL together, and the "as a whole" term of the GPL. You may not distribute a program which incorporates both GPL and QPL code. And linking PHP against libgdbm would be a program like that. Greg
