On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Mark Evans wrote:

> Since the mcrypt library is released under the GPL and php under the
> php 3.0 licence I guess the option to integrate the solutions isnt
> available so the other option would be for php to include their own
> encryption routines.

libmcrypt is LGPL, not GPL - which allows it to bundled it with PHP.

> Is this planned or is this even an option?

This is definitely not planned - we rather not bundle any library, and
definitely not an LGPL library.

Reinventing the wheel by providing encryption routines in PHP does not
make sense really. PHP is meant to be a glue to provide access to
libraries, and not meant to be reimplementing them.

regards,
Derick

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