[wp-hackers] Can we use PEAR?

Dan Coulter dan at dancoulter.com
Tue Oct 30 02:29:19 GMT 2007


On 10/29/07, Robin Adrianse <robin.adr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think he means copy and pasting the function. I'm not sure what the
> licensing issues are, though.


PEAR is licensed under the PHP license, which according to the Free Software
Foundation:

> This license is used by most of PHP4. It is a non-copyleft free software
> license. It is incompatible with the GNU GPL because it includes strong
> restrictions on the use of "PHP" in the name of derived products.
>
> We recommend that you not use this license for anything except PHP
> add-ons.
>



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