Re: [PHP] Re: PHP License question

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Ramsey
Yup. I believe that's what you have to do in order to satisfy the restrictions in the GPL. Gerard Samuel wrote: So to clarify. If I have a piece of code that utilises PEAR's Tar class (which uses a PHP License). In order for me to distribute my piece of code (under the GPL) along with the Tar

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP License question

2004-02-13 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 13 February 2004 01:27 pm, Ben Ramsey wrote: > > In addition, as a special exception, Ben Ramsey gives permission to link > the code of this program with those files in the PEAR library that are > licensed under the PHP License (or with modified versions of those files > that use the sam

[PHP] Re: PHP License question

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Ramsey
I spoke with the good folks over at the FSF, and figured out how to do this. The PHP License itself does not restrict the use code under it. The problem was with the GPL, which restricted the use of code under the GPL being paired with code under certain types of licenses (specifically license

[PHP] Re: PHP License question

2004-02-12 Thread Greg Beaver
Ben, You can ship the package as two separately licensed components. The PEAR packages will retain their original licenses. If you customize the package, then you should redistribute it as a different thing under your own license, and probably rename the files/classes so that they don't conf

[PHP] Re: PHP License question

2004-02-12 Thread Dan Phiffer
Ben Ramsey wrote: Now, to my question: if a PEAR package is released under the PHP license, and my product is under the GPL, can I include the PEAR package in my product? I don't know if this satisfies the legal requirement, but perhaps you could script some kind of automatic PEAR installation