On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:25 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:12, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > Is that why the PHP License is non-GPL compatible, or is there a > > > different reason for that? (That's always bugged me, personally.) > > > > PHP and license has less restrictions... it is not viral. You can for > > the most part do as you please with the code. > > That's nice. It's also not what I asked. I asked what it was that made it > GPL-incompatible. The answer lies in what I wrote. If you add GPL code to PHP then PHP code can no longer be used in distributed closed source solutions. GPL is viral, and it would choke that aspect of PHP's freedom. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
