Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-04-17, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: (And I was also under the impression that Debian follows the wishes of the copyright holder, so it doesn't matter if this argument has any legal merit, just that the FSF makes it.) Note that there's no FSF copyright code in the

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Olly Betts: It's possible this FAQ entry may not have been updated for GPLv3 - I notice that it talks about PHP4, which is obsolete now, and PHP5 predates GPLv3. Yes, I think this may be the case. I guess Florian's thinking is based on additional restrictions allowed by GPLv3 7c:

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:52:35 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: * Olly Betts: It's possible this FAQ entry may not have been updated for GPLv3 - I notice that it talks about PHP4, which is obsolete now, and PHP5 predates GPLv3. Yes, I think this may be the case. The same page extensively

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message pine.lnx.4.44.0904171144360.27732-100...@violet.rahul.net, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net writes On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was under the impression that the FSF thinks that if it's illegal to link a program with GPL software and distribute that, it's also

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was under the impression that the FSF thinks that if it's illegal to link a program with GPL software and distribute that, it's also illegal if you just distribute the other program and have the user do the link. HOW? I hope the FSF