On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:22:09 +0100 László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > 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.
Not much, as far as I know. The current version of the PHP License is still 3.01 and I am not aware of any other licensing exception or additional permission granted by the PHP Group over their PHP reference implementation. I think that my old license analysis still holds. > > > 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[...] > developed and maintained by him. Yes, I am the current maintainer and developer of apt-listbugs, but I am *not* a Debian Project member: I am an external contributor. > > > 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. Actually, I personally think even PHP itself is non-free. But, as previously mentioned, ftp-masters disagree with me: they think the reference PHP implementation is acceptable for Debian main. > 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. Good, thanks again. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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