On 26 June 2014 12:00, Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I should have done this earlier before cloning the bugs, so here's > some more background on the bugs filled. > > I did have a quite long and extensive chat with FTP Masters > and our conclusion was that PHP License (any version) is > suitable only for software that comes directly from "PHP Group", > that basically means only PHP (src:php5) itself. >
Can ftp-masters or you summarise the logic argumentation behind the above conclusion? > We have several options to do here: > > 1. Ask upstream to re-license the software to different free license > - BSD or MIT/Expat is the closest one. > > 2. Show that the software in question does come from "PHP Group", > f.e. software based on src:php5 sources. Most notable example is > src:php-json which is copy of ext/json/ adapted to libjson-c-dev > instead of the included JSON-IS-EVIL library. > > 3. We remove the source packages from Debian. > > One more note: PHP is *not* compatible with GPL[1]. If you have > sources that combine PHP-licensed source with GPL-licenced > source the result is not distributable. That includes linking GPL > library to PHP licenced source (e.g. libreadline as most notable > example of GPL library). > > While doing the copyright research I have found two such examples > and Ansgar was that kind that he filled: #752625 and #752627 > > Full list of bugs filled under this: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ondrej%40debian.org&tag=php-license-3.01 > > If you feel to dispute this please take your *well-formed* and > *well-thought* > arguments to debian-legal. > Why debian-legal, and not here / with you & ftp-masters ? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/canbhlujg0d4wbtdqikvdcfhfan4ymvyv-cohmktdq7tijd6...@mail.gmail.com