Excerpts from Steve Langasek's message of 2014-06-30 14:39:03 -0700: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 02:22:22PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from md's message of 2014-06-26 16:54:11 -0700: > > > On Jun 26, Clint Byrum <spam...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > Oh good, another discussion where we argue against our principles. I > > > And which principles would be that, exactly? > > > https://www.debian.org/social_contract > > > Specifically, we won't hide problems and Debian will remain 100% free. > > > Unless I'm mistaken, the wording in the PHP license makes it invalid for > > anybody that isn't actually the PHP project to use without making a > > false claim that "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT > > TEAM". > > > It is also GPL incompatible due to restrictions it places on the > > licensee's activities and the word PHP. > > PHP as a whole is GPL-incompatible and this won't change; and GPL > compatibility is a non-issue for interpreted languages. So this last bit > isn't really relevant here. >
This is about extensions, so it is entirely likely that extensions want to link to GPL and LGPL libraries where PHP itself does not. -- 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/1404164605-sup-...@fewbar.com
