On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:00:45 -0400, Michael Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Romain Beauxis wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:03:31 -0400, Michael Schultheiss >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > PHP 3.01 is still GPL incompatible. There's also many people under > the >> > impression that the PHP license is only valid for code from the PHP >> > Group. To solve the license issue, a GPL compatible license needs to > be >> > chosen. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ lists numerous GPL >> > Compatible Free Software Licenses. >> >> But who said we need a GPL compatible licence ? > > The 3 Debian bugs cc'd remain open due to incompatible licenses.
They are *unclear* issues mainly. >> This issue is getting on my nerves now, so please stop throwing >> pointless issues. Debian can accept software packaged under PHP >> licence 3.01 provided that they ship only php-related files. >> >> I you have a doubt, look at php5's package licence. > > Debian accepts PHP licensed code if it's from the PHP Group. As it seems this can extend to pear packages, see php-xml-parser. It is even lioenced under version 3... >> *So* I have prepared a pakcage shipping *only* this pear package and >> uploaded it to new. It's still stuck there, but I hope that since the >> licence is cleared, it will be accepted. >> >> Now my question was wether there was something I didn't figured out in >> *this* scenario, not yet another occasion to feed the troll on GPL vs. >> PHP licence. > > My whole involvement in this issue is due to the license incompatibility > and the release critical bugs in two of my packages due to that license > issue. I'm not trying to troll, I'm trying to resolve issues affecting > my packages and the software teams I'm part of. Sorry for suggesting so. The fact is that I feel this is a lame issue that should have been solved quickly but it's not (yet) the case.. Romain -- If you are the big three, We are the small axe...
