On 18 May 2026 2:47:45 am IST, Andrew McMillan <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just confirming what I've said in other places.
>
>I have reviewed the text of version 4.0 of the PHP license and can
>confirm it is a "BSD 3 Clause" variant and is now fully compatible with
>the Debian Free Software Guidelines, without any residual "it just
>applies to PHP itself" issues.
Yes, I get that. The answer to my question is still not clear.
Do you think it would be beneficial for lintian to drop tags for perl-2 and
perl-3 license?
Can this new license retroactively make those two DFSG compatible?
It would be non-trivial to detect for lintian the signs of PHP-4.0 in
d/copyright and selectively adopt or drop the tag, as folks may name it
differently. I'd therefore prefer for lintian to simply get rid of these or
keep them as is.
Or if thereare other ideas around this, I'm all ears.
Please let me know.
Thanks!
Best,
Nilesh
