On 03/10/2011 07:12 AM, Lyre wrote:
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.
Ok Lyre, then I guess Radek wanted to stick with the PHP licence. However by naming it php-libvirt he was violating the licence because of following paragraph: 4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor may "PHP" appear in their name, without prior written permission from group@php.net. You may indicate that your software works in conjunction with PHP by saying "Foo for PHP" instead of calling it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo" I wrote to group@php.net already asking them for that permission and we shall see what they reply to me. Michal -- Michal Novotny<minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat