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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] License for Windows binaries
From: wrowe@rowe-clan.net ("William A. Rowe, Jr.")

Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> 田中 裕一 escribió:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could anyone tell me the license of the binaries and source code placed here?
>> http://pecl2.php.net/downloads/php-windows-builds/
>>
>> I am developing a commercial package software using PHP and I will build
>> libraries and PHP my own.
>> Is it ok to use Visual Studio project files in these zip files (http://pecl2.php.net/downloads/php-windows-builds/source/)
>> or these binaries (http://pecl2.php.net/downloads/php-windows-builds/php-libs/)
>> for our commercial product and distribute our product with those binaries?
> 
> there is no restriction on using PHP in commercial products, as long you
> comply with PHP license
> 
> http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt
> 
> you must also comply with the legal requirements of the needed libraries.

Well, the binaries probably include c runtimes under liberal MS license.
They might be kind and give you mysql and a host of other GPL features under
a very restrictive license.

PHP's license is, as Cristian says, very liberal and you have nothing to
worry about until you link to something ;-)