Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> and the fact that the source is licensed under the GPL.
which is not a bad thing in the first place but needs
an additional statement that you give special permission
with php and especially the zend engine as these are not yet
compatible with the gpl
if the software you based your extension on is under the
gpl too, then the copyright holder of that piece of software
has to give the same permission, otherwise it is currently not
really possible to legaly distribute the extension, at least
not as part of the php repository itself
the situation might be looked at differently when you publish
your code as a standalone extension (and one might argue that
even including the source into the php source itself is ok
as long as you do not distribute binaries that have it
compiled in)
but right now php does not provide any extensions that rely
on GPLed software (ext/readline will now work with BSD code to)
and IMHO we should not allow any new GPL issues sneak in unless
we have eventualy solved the license incompatibility issues
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