php port, licenses

[Anatoliy Belsky]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:18, Richard Laager wrote:

> I don't think you mean port. I think you mean you want to write PHP
> bindings for libpurple? I thought someone had tried that before... did
> you check to see if such a thing already existed.


Yes, you right. It would be a php extension. I've not found any im binding for
php. Some pure php classes are existing (for example for icq), but they 
can't bear any criticism.

>

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:18, Richard Laager wrote:

> According to the FSF, it is. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say how this
> would apply to your project.

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:21, Ethan Blanton wrote:

> I am not a lawyer.  I think you have to say that before you say
> anything about licenses.
> The PHP license contains a sort of "advertising clause" (not quite
> like the BSD advertising clause), which restricts derivative works
> from using its name (perhaps among other things).  According to the
> PHP license FAQ, this does not cover projects which *use* PHP.[1]  You
> will need to determine if it covers things which *link* PHP.  If it
> does not, you can write a PHP plugin which links both Pidgin and PHP
> with no problem.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer. Therefore I'm asking here. But I read about the 
similar situation with a php project, where the developers of the original 
lib gave the extra permission to link their lib with php (in spite of the GPL 
license).

So I would use the name "purple" for this ext, not somthing with php
anyway. And I don't think, that there are things, that link php, only php
things, that link libpurple. Hm .. so I'll work further, and the licenses 
things will show them up

Thanks for your answers

Anatoliy