Le dim 17 septembre 2006 19:57, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > Le dim 17 septembre 2006 19:35, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:07:57PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Le dim 17 septembre 2006 16:11, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > > > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > bah stupid template... > > > > > > reportbug should barf when such things are forgotten :| > > > > > > anyway the package is in NEW, and debian/copyright is ok > > > > Have you checked out these threads? > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00681.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00148.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/09/msg00440.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/11/msg00078.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00130.html > > > > Basically, I tried to package this more than a year ago and was > > basically not able to finish. So, unless the legal issues have > > been resolved, this package will likely not be possible. The root > > of the problem is that the GPL is not compatible with the PHP > > license. There is no way around it, other than a clean rewrite of > > eacclerator by people who have not seen the mmchache-derived code. > > hmm, right. the thing is, the code has been rewriten for the most > part of it, so they are not tied with the turck-mmcache copyright > holders anymore (afaict). so maybe it's possible to discuss it with > upstream.
here is the link that explains that: http://archive.eaccelerator.net/OldNews and that has been achieved since, if I'm correct. so if this is just a matter of exception to be done to the GPL, I'm really sure we can work on it nicely. > so basically, what has to be done? they must just explain that they > allow anyone to build their GPL software against php, is that it ? > > the situations changed in the sense that we are not tied because of > the past anymore. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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