Re: MySQL and PHP now OK together?

["Nils O." Selåsdal <nos utel no>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:55, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> said:
> > How close have other libraries been checked?  There are numerous
> > installed libraries that are GPL (or at least marked GPL in the spec
> > file).
> 
> Along the same lines, PHP (at least the FC1 PHP RPM) also requires
> libgdbm.  It also requires libfreetype (another case of the RPM saying
> GPL when it isn't).  The php-snmp RPM requires libelf from elfutils
> which is GPL.
elfutils/COPYING says   The Open Software License
                                v. 1.0

> I'm all for getting licenses correct, but don't throw stones at MySQL 4
> and say it can't be linked to PHP or Apache because of GPL when parts of
> both PHP and Apache are already linked against other GPL libraries.
2 wrongs doesn't make one right..

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Nils Olav Selåsdal
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