Liquid Fire Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Maybe it is just that it is late or what not but i just don't understand this license. I am looking to use php mailer as my email class in my web API. Now this mailer class uses this license. I want to release my API under the MIT license so that people can use it for free or commercial product. I am also going to use this API to develop my web application which i plan on selling for a small fee. Will this license let me do what i want to here? I basically want to know if i can use this class in a commercial product without any trouble. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypnos Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 GPL = If you change it or use it and distribute it, you have to give back your code as GPL. LGPL = Closer to less restrictive licenses like BSD. You can link to the code for non-GPL code. BSD/MIT = The code is basicly free game. That's at least my understanding of it. You should be fine with referencing that class with software under any license. Just provide source code if you have to make changes to the class itself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/#findComment-340013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Fire Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 well from what i read is: "If there are no modifications to the GPL-licensed program, and it is not embedded within a proprietary program, the terms of the GPL simply don't apply to the licensee's software." I want to create a wrapper class the uses phpmailer and this wrapper class is going to be used throughout the program. I don't want to change the phpmailer class but the class is going to be embedded in my software(i take embedded and included in my sotware) so doesn't that mean i would have to release my software as GPL? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/#findComment-347706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Fire Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 I just relized the phpmailer is released under GPL adn LGPL so i can use this in my none GPL code Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/#findComment-348676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Since phpmailer is released under the LGPL, you can release any application which uses phpmailer under a different license. However, if you modify phpmailer, you can't release your modified phpmailer under a license other than the LGPL or the GPL. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/#findComment-348687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Fire Posted September 15, 2007 Author Share Posted September 15, 2007 What that sound fine, the only thing i am changing is the class name form PHPMailer to phpmailer to work with my API I am building with it. I plan on releasing this API under the LGPL license anyways and then using my API with development my commercial web applications. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/67617-gnu-lesser-general-public-license/#findComment-349099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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