Package: ftp.debian.org Version: 20161017 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi
There is a Debian position statement regarding the PHP license at https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html This was recently highligthed on DDA [1] and thus brought to my attention. The blockquote formatting on this page seems wrong. I guess the following pseudo-diff against the page HTML should be applied (which also includes a simple typo fix near the beginning): <p> Debian packages include PHP and PHP add-ons but we don't - attempt to, nor can we, resolve the impossible quandry + attempt to, nor can we, resolve the impossible quandary that the language of the PHP 3.01 license creates. It is a free software license and we modify the software and correctly designate the source of its origin by calling it PHP or X for PHP. The license requires us to make a statement: </p> <blockquote> <p>"This product includes PHP software, freely available from - http://www.php.net/software/";, the veracity of which cannot be + http://www.php.net/software/";</p></blockquote> + <p>the veracity of which cannot be verified by us, nor can we be held responsible for the maintenance of the link.</p> - </blockquote> Even with these changes, it is not clear (at least to me) which part(s) of the position statement needs to be included in PHP packages. Perhaps the page could be reorganized to contain a specific copy/pastable snippet for easy reuse? I hope reporting the problems via a bug report against ftp.debian.org is acceptable procedure. If not, please help me understand how to bring this up properly. Thanks in advance, /* era */ [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00004.html -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not.
