[Solar-general] Licencia: que tan libre es?

Dom Mayo 14 20:59:04 CEST 2006

Hola gente, me topé con esta herramienta, es un debugger para PHP,
pero no me termino de dar cuenta que tan libre es su licencia. Por lo
que veo es muy similar a la BSD...

Abrazos!

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