Re: License Stuff

[<bob thestuff net>]

Could libgda be relicensed lgpl like most of the rest of gnome? the
backends can stay gpl, but if libgda is lgpled, problems like that should
be resolved.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 rodrigo linuxave net wrote:

> 
> 
> >
> >
> >      Rodrigo,
> >
> >      Even though we have nothing to put a license on so far (the
> >      PHP binding), I am kind of puzzled
> >      by the licensing issue. I went to www.gnu.org and checked
> >      out the situation of
> >      PHP' s license. it says: "This is a non-copyleft free
> >      software license with practical
> >      problems like those of the original BSD license, including
> >      incompatibility with the GNU GPL.
> >
> >      The actual binding code (which would be a PHP module, and
> >      I'm gonna call it php_gda for now)
> >      will necessarily have to be linked against libgda, but would
> >      also have to be linked against/mixed
> >      up with the PHP stuff, right? Since GPL and PHP's license
> >      are incompatible what license should
> >      we put on this code? Would double licensing be an solution
> >      here?
> >
> >      Well, I'd like to hear from you about this.
> >
> >      Bye.
> >
> Cleber,
> 
> I am also puzzled by this, because I'm not an expert at all in license
> issues. So, I forward the message to the gome-db list so that we can
> discuss it.
> 
> cheers
> 
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