I believe most pecl extensions are licensed this way. I will certainly look into it though. On Nov 1, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Lior Kaplan <kap...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi James & Herman, > > The PHP extension for Gearman has just got into the Debian archive. We've got > the following reject about the license of the extension (see bellow). > > Would you consider changing the license to another BSD style license? (well, > just not the PHP license which is intended PHP itself) > > Kaplan > > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: php-gearman > Severity: serious > User: paul...@debian.org > Usertags: ftp > X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org > thanks > > From the REJECT faq: > > / > | You have a PHP add-on package (any php script/"app"/thing, not PHP > | itself) and it's licensed only under the standard PHP license. That > | license, up to the 3.x which is actually out, is not really usable for > | anything else than PHP itself. I've mailed our -legal list about that > | and got only one response, which basically supported my view on this. > | Basically this license talks only about PHP, the PHP Group, and includes > | Zend Engine, so its not applicable to anything else. And even worse, > | older versions include the nice ad-clause. > | > | One good solution here is to suggest a license change to your upstream, > | as they clearly wanted a free one. LGPL or BSD seems to be what they > | want. > \ > > Sorry this made it through NEW, > > > Hope you're well, and thanks for your work, > Paul > > -- > .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> > : :' : Proud Debian Developer > `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 > `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-php-pecl mailing list > pkg-php-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-pecl > >
