[PHP-DEV] Re: midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-07-30 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
SL If (a) is true then I could GPL my copy of PHP and then use and SL GPL-non-LGPL code I liked You can not GPL PHP code - that's not your code, you don't hold a copyright on it. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115 --

Re: [PHP-DEV] midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV]Non-GPL readline

2001-01-17 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote: Midgard, soon to use php4 is to be released GPL (according to their website www.midgard-project.org). How will this work; will it just be the patch to php4 that makes it INTO migard that will be GPL, or midgard+PHP that will be GPL. The owner

Re: [PHP-DEV] midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
At 12:08 17/1/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: They obviously can't distribute PHP under the GPL. And I wish they would just contribute whatever patches to PHP they think need so Midgard could use a vanilla PHP install. Stas talked to them a while ago, some of their patches don't really align

Re: [PHP-DEV] midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-01-17 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 12:02 17/1/2001, Sam Liddicott wrote: If (b) is true then surely we need officialy a choice of license (or at least project-midgard.org does) As Rasmus said, obviously they can't distribute PHP under the GPL - and there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean that they can't distribute

Re: [PHP-DEV] midgard, was RE: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-01-17 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 12:17 17/1/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: At 12:08 17/1/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: They obviously can't distribute PHP under the GPL. And I wish they would just contribute whatever patches to PHP they think need so Midgard could use a vanilla PHP install. Stas talked to them a while

Re: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-01-15 Thread Stig Venaas
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:16:14AM +0100, Ragnar Kjrstad wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -, Sam Liddicott wrote: If I were to write a proxy library which could integrate with various read-line style libraries - lets say just the GNU one for now to save time, and er...

Re: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

2001-01-15 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
Quoting Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, if your code is compatible with a GNU library, which is, in turn, compatible with some other library (commercial, BSD) that is legal to link with PHP, then things change. Obviously, this all story about encouraging the users to break the