On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:03:38AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: >> Personally, I consider the PHP License non-free even for PHP itself, >> but that's another story: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00272.html That's seems to be an old email, things may changed a bit since then.
> Just to clarify, since Paul may not be accustomed with Debian's > structure or your involvement: this is your opinion but you're not a > member of the Debian project and you're certainly not the decision maker > for DFSG-freeness. It seems he _is_ connected with Debian. At least apt-listbugs[1] developed and maintained by him. > PHP is in the archive and is licensed under the PHP License to my > knowledge, so the current ftp-masters' stance is that it's a perfectly > acceptable license for inclusion into Debian. I think he meant PHP License is not free for _other_ software than PHP itself. But I'm neither a legal person and will let the FTP Masters decide on this. I know one of them personally, may ask him in advance for a legal standpoint. I'm still interested about HHVM, will retry its packaging next year. Regards, Laszlo/GCS [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-listbugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakjshr0b_rb9+y6jmztyv26qjpexffleke+pqnflkb-yh8a...@mail.gmail.com
