Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-17 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-04-17, Ken Arromdee wrote: > (And I was also under the impression that Debian follows the wishes of the > copyright holder, so it doesn't matter if this argument has any legal merit, > just that the FSF makes it.) Note that there's no FSF copyright code in the xapian-bindings upstream tar

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-17 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-04-17, MJ Ray wrote: > Olly Betts wrote: >> For reference, this is #513796 in the BTS. > > Will you summarise/link or should we cc? Good question. Since I didn't Cc: the start of the thread, I'll update the bug with a link to this thread, and summarise the

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-17 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-04-17, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:09:57 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Olly Betts: >> >> > To summarise, php5-xapian wraps the GPLv2+ licensed Xapian library for >> > PHP v3.01 licensed PHP5. >> >> The PHP license is

php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-16 Thread Olly Betts
Hi, For reference, this is #513796 in the BTS. To summarise, php5-xapian wraps the GPLv2+ licensed Xapian library for PHP v3.01 licensed PHP5. The two licences are regarded as incompatible due to the restriction on names containing "PHP" in clause 4 of the PHP licence. The build process doesn't