Hi, I received a mail on the Japanese PHP users' mailing list that points out our distribution of the binaries of libiconv and libmbfl (linked by mbstring) infringes the section 6 of the GNU lesser general public license [1].
According to the mail, we have to have some notices included in each package that specifies the license under which the libraries are released and the names of authors who write the libraries. In addition to that, it looks like we also have to include the complete copy of the license itself. The portion of the section in question is pasted below: <quote> You must give prominent notice with each copy of the work that the Library is used in it and that the Library and its use are covered by this License. You must supply a copy of this License. If the work during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the copyright notice for the Library among them, as well as a reference directing the user to the copy of this License. Also, you must do one of these things: </quote> Besides, another mail in the relevant thread points out that expat, which is distributed under the MIT license [2] requires us to include the license and the disclaimer as well. <quote> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. </quote> I think we should soon take some action. Regards, Moriyoshi p.s. Thanks to Koyama Tetsuji, his acquaintance, and Tamagawa for letting me know those issues. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
