[ale] A licensing question...

[Greg]

I was looking at some stuff the other day that is under a GPL library
license.  There apparently are 2 different licenses.  The GNU site has the
lowdown on it.  Have you looked there ?  and how about the php site ?

There is apparently a "Lesser GPL License" now too.

Greg Canter

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Wells
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:47 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] A licensing question...
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> I was wondering what the licensing issues for app frameworks (or any
> included classes/libs) for scripting languages are.  I'm creating a rather
> large PHP application for a company, and they'd like to potentially resell
> it to some of their customers.
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> Can I safely use GPL'd libraries, classes, etc. (i.e. PearDB) and
> resources that fall under other open source licenses when developing the
> app and let them redistribute these third-party resources with the code I
> develop, or would that be a violation?  If so, could I get around this by
> only distributing inhouse code and requiring any customer to install the
> relevant libraries on their server?
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> It would seem to me that since it's a scripted application, I'm
> effectively providing the source as well, so it wouldn't be a problem.
> However, would I be forced to license the entire application under the
> GPL?
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> Also, thinking ahead here a bit, if they wanted to use something like Zend
> Encoder on the project...or at the portion I developed...what sort of
> added gotchas could that bring up?
>
> Thanks guys!
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> John
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