Re: [pear-webmaster] Laws about open source in a proprietary solution

Hi guys,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Christian Weiske <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, this is completely legal. There is only one point you have to consider:
> When the code you use is LGPL (which some of the packages in PEAR are), you have to contribute *changes* you do to the code back to PEAR (or simply make them public).
>
> There is generally no problem using PEAR packages in proprietary applications.

Christian is absolutely right and this is the whole reason behind PEAR
and the licenses we allow - to be able to use it in your business
applications.

Now what Christian says about LGPL is also true but we'd appreciate
any contribution back from you no matter what license is on the
package, LGPL is simply a bit stricter about it.

Regards
Helgi