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  1. Bug #93603
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 93603

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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote : Re: [Bug 93603] List of what's available and what's missing. [need "readline" and "gmp"]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:09:13AM -0000, Soren Hansen wrote:
> > 4)The obviously useful, yet missing ones (i.e. the ones that, I
> > think we need to add) are: gmp and readline
> I could be wrong (I haven't examined the situation), but I have a
> hunch that this could be on purpose and due to PHP License + GPL
> licensing issues. I'll look at it a bit later (today or tomorrow).

Alright, the situation is: GMP is LGPL and readline is GPL. IIRC the php
license is considered GPL-incompatible, so a php5-readline would require
an explicit exception from the readline copyright holder for this
purpose. I'm not entirely clear on whether something similar is
required for php5-gmp. Perhaps someone else can shed some light upon
this?

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Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
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