[Pkg-php-pecl] Bug#728196: php-gearman is licensed under the PHP license, and is not php

[Paul Tagliamonte]

Package: php-gearman
Severity: serious
User: paultag at debian.org
Usertags: ftp
X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org
thanks

From the REJECT faq:

/
| You have a PHP add-on package (any php script/"app"/thing, not PHP
| itself) and it's licensed only under the standard PHP license. That
| license, up to the 3.x which is actually out, is not really usable for
| anything else than PHP itself. I've mailed our -legal list about that
| and got only one response, which basically supported my view on this.
| Basically this license talks only about PHP, the PHP Group, and includes
| Zend Engine, so its not applicable to anything else. And even worse,
| older versions include the nice ad-clause.
| 
| One good solution here is to suggest a license change to your upstream,
| as they clearly wanted a free one. LGPL or BSD seems to be what they
| want.
\

Sorry this made it through NEW,


Hope you're well, and thanks for your work,
  Paul

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