[Gllug] Can I link GNU AGPL code with GPL 2 code?

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Fri Feb 15 13:03:37 UTC 2008


salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> It has to be that way, otherwise you could take somebody's GPL code,
> modify it so it links with your library, then release your library as
> binary only under a restrictive license.

Of course, this is a lot harder to do with a library in PHP, Perl, 
Python etc. where the source *is* the binary. Hence, all the 
"aggregation" talk on that page.

> Reading the link to the PEAR site, they seem to be pretty anti-GPL. 

On this page?
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/faq.devs.php
Which bit?

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