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

[Ondřej Surý]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 14:07, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:
> 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

You need to discuss that with Debian ftpmasters.

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

Because you don't agree with the outcome doesn't mean that
it's an insane thing to do. The insane thing would be to fill RM
requests right away and even that would be justifiable given
the current opinion of FTP Master team (Disclaimer: I am not
member of FTP Master team and I have a quite a lot affected
packages).

> Most authors will ignore such artifical license "issues", coming
> from the Debian, 

We have kicked out GFDL licensed documentation with unmodifiable
parts out of the archive before. And one proposal in GR was to kick
all GFDL documentation out of the archive.

> especially as this is not a problem for other distributions.

That doesn't mean a thing from Debian POV. Other distributions also
doesn't have DFSG (and yet the wikipedia have a DFSG-compatible
field when describing licenses). We should not lower our standards
to the mean, on the contrary we should strive to move the mean closer
to our standards.

Ondrej
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