On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:34:02PM +0100, Christian Weiske wrote:
>  Sylvain,
>  
>  
>  > Incompatible means I cannot combine the two kinds of work.
>  > You can use GPL'd code with (compatible) mBSD'd code - the resulting
>  > work will be under the GPL, be it in one way or another.
>  > But you cannot legally combine GPL'd code with incompatible code
>  
>  I assume you do not modify the PEAR code and just use it as it comes.
>  Doing that is legal IMO.

Well, I am pretty sure that, when licenses are incompatible, it is not
legal to make use of a library in your project, even unmodified.


Maybe you heard of the troubles some GPL'd packages face when using
the (incompatible) OpenSSL library. Distributions usually have to
recompile such apps using GnuTLS, when possible.

For the Arch VCS, for example, HTTPS support was disabled until
recently, when 'neon' (the WebDAV library) offered to use GnuTLS as an
alternative to OpenSSL.


In any case, using the modified BSD license would clarify the
situation :)

-- 
Sylvain

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