On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I am totally fine if people put it in distributions as php4-xdebug. > > AFAIK freebsd's ports already have this, and so will Mandrake in the > > forseeable feature. It would be silly of me to prohibit this, and this > > is what IMO the license never intended to prohibit. > > Even if the Debian package contains differences from the upstream > version? Your license only permits use of the name "Xdebug" for > unmodified versions; as stated above, Debian packages frequently contain > changes from the upstream versions. (These patches are generally sent > upstream, but the Debian maintainer will often apply a patch without > waiting for a new upstream version containing that patch.)
See, that is something I wouldn't like distributions to do with any code as it's IMO highly confusing for users if their distributions version of a package does something not-documented, or something not at all (although it's documented). Unless it's a security problem a distribution should be pure (except from perhaps changing some default directories or something like that). If a distribution wants something fixed, then they can send a patch to the developer. If it make sense it will get incorporated, but it's also very possible that a proposed patch is a bad implementation, or performance killing and in that case a packaged version will be suboptimal. And there is usually one person that gets the blame: the author. regards, Derick -- Xdebug | http://xdebug.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
