[libvirt] Question about PHP licencing for libvirt-php (php-libvirt for Fedora)

[Michal Novotny]

On 03/09/2011 06:17 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.

What about using the LGPLv2+ licence then? php-shout is using it 
according to 
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=php-shout.git;a=blob_plain;f=php-shout.spec;hb=HEAD

Thanks,
Michal

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Michal Novotny<minovotn at redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat