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It might, if PHP were distributed under a copyleft license that cared about such things. PHP is not (it's licensed under a BSD-style license [1], which permits
by JonathonW 11y ago
It might, if PHP were distributed under a copyleft license that cared about such things. PHP is not (it's licensed under a BSD-style license [1], which permits redistribution under another license with attribution).
I'm actually having trouble finding an interpreted language (and accompanying standard library) that is licensed under a copyleft license. Python isn't (the PSFL isn't copyleft); Ruby isn't (it's dual-licensed under 2-clause BSD and a Ruby license that's their own); Perl isn't (it's dual-licensed under GPL and the Artistic License, with an explicit note by Larry Wall that scripts are not considered derivative works for GPL purposes).
[1] http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt
- spc476 11y agoWould guile [1] fit the criteria of a GPL'ed interpreted language? [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
- ploxiln 11y agoguile is LGPL, "dynamic" linking is allowed http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE;h=3961579b8240cda85feab9e392d234febe3157f9;hb=HEAD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=LIC... (damn it's hard to find a reference to the license on the web site) EDIT: found a related link; some extra/common libraries are also LGPL http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/gnu-guile-projects.html#Core http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/gnu-guile-projects.html#Co...