[development] Modules that integrate non-GPL PHP apps violate the GPL.

[Piermaria Maraziti]

At 23.04 30/08/2007, you wrote:

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>For example, this API argument: by prohibiting use of APIs to bridge
>differently-licensed applications (and aren't APIs developed
>*precisely* to bridge two different applications?) we're forcing a
>"dumbing down" of work (and sundry other potential problems and
>risks) by legally requiring the bypassing of established application
>methodologies (such as security protocols) to write direct queries to
>databases.

If GPL programs do exist in windows (and mac) environments it is 
fairly obvious that use API of differently-licensed applications... 
or they write pixels directly in the graphic card and sectors 
directly in the hard disk?

Sorry to be rude but this had to be said this way... if I'm wrong I 
apologize, but I think I'm not.

</delurking>

Ciao!

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