[php-maint] Bug#498621: permission to remove the "When you use this, send an email to" requirement from the MTRand code
Raphael Geissert
atomo64 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 22:56:58 UTC 2008
Hello everybody,
At Debian we have recently stumbled upon a "hidden"[0] clause[1] in a source
code file included in PHP since php4. Since this clause is not free in terms
of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)[2] it prevents us (Debian) from
distributing the php interpreter.
I am thereby asking for your permission to remove the clause; but I would like
you to give permission to *anybody* and not just Debian, as otherwise it
would be a violation of the DFSG.
Although Shawn Cokus and Richard J. Wagner stated that it would be _nice_ to
CC them it would be nice to get an OK by them too.
When replying please send a copy of the message to, at least, the addresses in
Reply-To.
[0] It was not noticed until a couple of weeks ago by Jan Wagner, who reported
the problem at http://bugs.debian.org/499471
[1] From php's ext/standard/rand.c:
> The original code included the following notice:
>
> When you use this, send an email to: matumoto at math.keio.ac.jp
> with an appropriate reference to your work.
>
> It would be nice to CC: rjwagner at writeme.com and
> Cokus at math.washington.edu when you write.
[2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
Yours sincerely,
Raphael Geissert
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