Hi,
I received a mail on the Japanese PHP users' mailing list that points
out our distribution of the binaries of libiconv and libmbfl (linked by
mbstring) infringes the section 6 of the GNU lesser general public
license [1].
According to the mail, we have to have some notices included in each
package that specifies the license under which the libraries are
released and the names of authors who write the libraries. In addition
to that, it looks like we also have to include the complete copy of the
license itself.
The portion of the section in question is pasted below:
<quote>
You must give prominent notice with each copy of the work that the
Library is used in it and that the Library and its use are covered by
this License. You must supply a copy of this License. If the work
during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the
copyright notice for the Library among them, as well as a reference
directing the user to the copy of this License. Also, you must do one
of these things:
</quote>
Besides, another mail in the relevant thread points out that expat,
which is distributed under the MIT license [2] requires us to include
the license and the disclaimer as well.
<quote>
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
</quote>
I think we should soon take some action.
Regards,
Moriyoshi
p.s. Thanks to Koyama Tetsuji, his acquaintance, and Tamagawa for
letting me know those issues.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
