RE: [phpGroupWare-developers] GPLv3 (was Who wants to play?)

[Sigurd Nes]

> From: Dave Hall address@hidden
> Sent: 2009-11-09 13:13:21 CET
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [phpGroupWare-developers] GPLv3 (was Who wants to play?)
> 
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:49 +0100, Maât wrote:
> > Sigurd Nes wrote:
> >
> > for the remaining license issue i don't understand why there is a
> > problem with GPL v3
> > 
> > can someone explain please ?
> 
> Sigurd wants to import felamimail from eGroupWare - which depends on
> PEAR code (which is PHP licensed code - read not GPLv2 or v3
> compatible).  His work around for the licensing issue is to play the
> same game as eGroupWare by telling people to download the PHP licensed
> code separately.  This may actually constitute a GPL violation as there
> is expert opinion around which suggests include/require in PHP
> constitute static linking - regardless of if you distribute the code
> with it or not.
> 

Btw: I can skip the felamimail application from being ported.
That should ease the pain.
The existing one (that does not use PEAR code) is still GPLv2 only.

Regards

Sigurd