[Xapian-discuss] Re: [Swig-devel] license issue

Alexander Lind malte at webstay.org
Tue Aug 21 19:57:34 BST 2007


As long as you freely publish the source code of whatever you release 
that derives from GPL:ed code, do you really have to ask anyones permission?

Alec

Sam Liddicott wrote:
> The PHP bindings derive from PHP, swig and also derive from Xapians swig definitions which derive from Xapian.
>
> It would require discovering those contributors whose work the swig definitions derive from and getting their permission.
>
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Alexander Lind" <malte at webstay.org>
> To: "Xapian Discussion" <xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
> Sent: 21/08/07 16:35
> Subject: [Xapian-discuss] Re: [Swig-devel] license issue
>
> Would it be possible to build Xapian PHP bindings against this 
> alternative PHP implementation?
>
> I take it this would be quite different from building them using SWIG.
>
> Alec
>
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
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>> Alexander Lind wrote:
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>>> Apparently the PHP license does not play nice with the standard GPL
>>> license,
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>> There is a GPL/LGPL licensed alternative PHP implementation:
>> <http://code.roadsend.com/pcc>
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>> - --
>> Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project
>> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp
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