AW: GnuPG with PHP

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:

> I think these two are acceptable for gnuPG, since gnuPG is
> non-commercial software. Am I right?  This is NOT intended as a flame:

In the GNU project we don't care whether something is commercial or
non-commercial but whether it is free or proprietary.  You can use
any GPLed software and use it for whatever commercial purposes you
can imagine - you have just to comply to the GPL and the GPL does
not talk about money.  Actually it is a Good Thing to take money for
Free Software and we encourage this.

This thread started out with the question whether one can link GPLed
software to PHP.  From my understanding of the license (I don't know
whether the Zend thing is really needed), PHP 4 is not compatible to
the GPL and thereofre you can neither statically nor dunamically
link GPLed code to PHP interpreter/compiler or whatever this thing
is called.  You can however create a separate process from a GPLed
program (i.e. fork/exec it).

Ciao,

  Werner


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