[Pkg-php-pecl] Bug#752532: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

Sergey B Kirpichev skirpichev at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 12:07:07 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 01:00:12PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> 3. We remove the source packages from Debian.

Can you kindly explain why?  Is the PHP license is non-free?  If so,
why?  If not - let's lower the bugs severity.

I see only *one* reply from debian-legal here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/threads.html#00128

And this reply is not strictly suggests to do such (insane) thing.

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> So, looking at such packages in NEW - what do you guys suggest to do?
> *I* tend to go and kick them out.

I would probably let it pass
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Most authors will ignore such artifical license "issues", coming
from the Debian, especially as this is not a problem for other distributions.



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