Package: dh-make-php Version: 0.2.6 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining dh-make-php - it's great and I happily used it to package the PHP SASL extension: http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/debian/pool/php-sasl/
However, though the SASL extension is licensed according to the PHP 3.01 license: http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt - dh-make-php used the PHP 3.0 license, which was rejected by the Debian FTP masters for the reasons attached. I think dh-make-php should instead correctly use the PHP 3.01 license... Thanks, Jack -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dh-make-php depends on: ii cdbs 0.4.49 common build system for Debian pac ii php-pear 5.2.3-1 PEAR - PHP Extension and Applicati ii php5-cli 5.2.3-1+b2 command-line interpreter for the p dh-make-php recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
Hi Maintainer, Im sorry but I need to reject this package out of NEW. The reason for this decision is the license which does not really fit the package. You package a php thing, either an addon "library" or a php "application" which uses the PHP license. Unfortunately for you this license can't really be used with anything else except PHP itself. Shortcut for packages from the PHP group: There was a release of a PHP license version 3.01. That one is usable for stuff from the PHP group itself, but still nothing else. So if you got this reject having a package from that group - it most probably still uses an older, inappropriate, version of the PHP license. As the license usually allows to use a newer version of it - do it. Oh, and ask Upstream to update its package. Package not from PHP group? Read on: Note: It is not that the PHP license is non-free. The license itself is free, *IF* and only *IF* you package PHP itself. For anything else it renders the package basically undistributable, as the license simply doesn't apply. (See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00124.html and following mails for more). It always only talks about "the product PHP", not about software. And "php-whatever" (or how the actual software may be called) isnt really "PHP" from the PHP group. Point 6 (in version 3 of the license, Point 5 in the older version 2) is also an advertisement clause. Bad thing which is usually discouraged. (And if you/Upstream made the mistake to include GPL licensed files you have more trouble). And, at the end there is the following text: ------------------------------------------------------------------- This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many individuals on behalf of the PHP Group. The PHP Group can be contacted via Email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information on the PHP Group and the PHP project, please see <http://www.php.net>. This product includes the Zend Engine, freely available at <http://www.zend.com>. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I doubt that your package is made "on behalf of the PHP group". Or that it includes the Zend Engine. As a good solution for this I suggest to talk to your upstream. Looking at the license they've chosen they do want to make it available for everyone, so I suggest to use either the original BSD license or the LGPL. As soon as this is fixed you are of course free to reupload the package. -- bye Joerg === If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the override file requires editing, reply to this email.
