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

Herman J. Radtke III herman at hermanradtke.com
Sat Nov 2 16:16:59 UTC 2013


I believe most pecl extensions are licensed this way. I will certainly look into it though.
On Nov 1, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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