[libvirt] Question about PHP licencing for libvirt-php (php-libvirt for Fedora)

Lyre liyong at skybility.com
Thu Mar 10 06:12:50 UTC 2011


于 2011年03月10日 01:17, Daniel P. Berrange 写道:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I don't know who's the right person to ask so I'm posting this into
>> the libvir-list. We're going to have the libvirt-php package in
>> Fedora (but renamed to php-libvirt only) but I don't know about the
>> licencing. The licence in the SPEC file (by Lyre) is set to "PHP"
>> however the licence file describes the GPL licence.
>>
>> My question is whether somebody does know whether it's OK to write a
>> PHP extension under GPL licence or whether we need the PHP licence
>> for this.
> The PHP license is *not* GPL compatible
>
>    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PHP_License
>    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
>
> So, the libvirt-php module would have to be under either the PHP license,
> or something less restrictive.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
The spec was copied from Radek's original php-libvirt with the License 
untouched, I'm not sure about it.




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