MySQL and PHP now OK together?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 16:55:13 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:55:42AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> 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.

libelf has both OSL and GPL versions

> 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.

The apache one is an error Joe has a patch for which got lost somewhere,
and we are checking over the others.

Alan





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