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A new extension for PHP4 is now available

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Stéphane Degré

22 years ago
Dear PHP community, We are two French students. We study computer sciences at the "Universite Louis Pasteur" of Strasbourg. During our fourth year, we had to create a project. We chose to develop an extension for the PHP community. "att_codec" is the name of our extension. It is written in C language and usable with PHP4. It is based on the widely used C-library UUDeview. This extension provides with a lot of functions that are able to code/decode large mails attachments (Formats: base64, UUEncoding, XXEncoding, Yenc). It is heberged by sourceforge. You can download the sources, the binaries and the documentation in the following address : https://sourceforge.net/projects/php-attcodec/. You can also consult our web site in the following address http://php-attcodec.sourceforge.net/. Yours sincerely, Stephane Degre, Renaud Hager

Andrey Hristov

22 years ago
Hi, a small licensing question. Is it only forbidden to have extensions in PECL that link to GPL or it's not possible at all to have PHP extensions (even not hosted in PECL) that link to GPL code , and there is no exception in the license of the code (like with mysql). Andrey

Rasmus Lerdorf

22 years ago
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Andrey Hristov wrote:
> a small licensing question. Is it only forbidden to have extensions in PECL that > link to GPL or it's not possible at all to have PHP extensions (even not hosted > in PECL) that link to GPL code , and there is no exception in the license of > the code (like with mysql).
If the extension can *only* work by being linked to a GPL'ed library, then yes, you can't do it. If however linking to the GPL'ed library is an optional thing and the extension can work by being linked to a non-GPL'ed library then simply tell people to use the non-GPL'ed library and you are fine. The problem with an extension that has no purpose other than linking against a GPL'ed library is that although we are not violating the GPL because we don't distribute a binary that is already linked, we are distributing something which encourages people to violate the GPL. Libraries shouldn't be GPL'ed anyway. Talk to the author and ask him/her to switch to the LGPL at least. -Rasmus