On 23 February 2010 19:53, Olly Betts <o...@survex.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Have you considered contacting the copyright owners to get their agreement to >> add an exception? maybe it is going to be easier to add an exception than re- >> licensing all the xapian code. > > If you mean adding an exception to Xapian's licence, that's not feasible. I > tried negotiating with two of them years ago, and it just wastes a lot of > time. > I'd rather spend that time working towards a version of Xapian which doesn't > contain any of their code.
Yes, that's what I meant. > I never heard back from the FSF, so unless they reply belatedly, or I can get > a > legal opinion from another plausible source that GPLv3 and PHP licences are > compatible, my plan is to drop php5-xapian when we get to freezing squeeze. Oh, ok. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
