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

[Lior Kaplan]

Hi James & Herman,

The PHP extension for Gearman has just got into the Debian archive. We've
got the following reject about the license of the extension (see bellow).

Would you consider changing the license to another BSD style license?
(well, just not the PHP license which is intended PHP itself)

Kaplan



On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at debian.org>wrote:

> 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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