PHP smbpwd licanse

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:58:10PM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote:

> Sorry, but you cannot use the same code released under GPL and include
> it under a different license. You can however study what the code does
> and create a complete new code based on the same concepts you learned
> from the code.

More valuable, I think, would be if it were possible to release a GPLed 
PHP extension that uses these GPLed routines.  Would that be disallowed 
because PHP's license is not GPL-compatible?  Or, since these are 
effectively language bindings, would the GPL only extend to PHP scripts 
using this PHP extension?

Is there any precedent in the history of Perl modules, for example?

I do remember that the PHP team was not allowed to distribute a 
extension that was built on top of GNU readline; but I don't remember 
whether this was only because they were unwilling to license that 
extension under the GPL.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

> On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:43, metzemix at gmx.de wrote:
> > I want to publish a php extension to provide functions witch generate NT and
> > LM password hash.
> > 
> > I use the source/lib/md4.c and source/libsmb/smbdes.c files. 
> > 
> > I'm not sure if  this is possible because PHP uses the PHP license and samba
> > GPL.
> > 
> > function list:
> > string smbntpwd( string password )
> > string smblmpwd( string password )
> > 
> > This is usefull to manage SAMBA Accounts in LDAP Directories or MySQL
> > with PHP scripts.
> > 
> > metze
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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> Simo Sorce
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