Hmmmph. Is PHP so different from C/C++/Fortran that it essentially transforms the GPL into the LGPL? If one compiles against the GNU scientific library, or wr

Hmmmph. Is PHP so different from C/C++/Fortran that it essentially transforms the GPL into the LGPL? If one compiles against the GNU scientific library, or writes a GUI frontend for GNU octave, the application is tainted. The FSF has also been explicit that one cannot get around this using shared libraries (hence the LGPL, where one can).