I have raised the matter on debian-legal - the thread is here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal/32307
To summarise:
The consensus seems to be that it's not OK under GPLv2, and probably
isn't under GPLv3. The FSF's GPL FAQ says the PHP licence isn't GPL
compatible, though possibly hasn't been updated for GPLv3 (I will
email them and ask for clarification on that point).
It seems that if we have to drop the php5-xapian binary package, I don't
need to drop the PHP bindings source by creating a "dfsg" version of the
upstream source tarball, but instead I can just leave it unused. Ken
Arromdee argued otherwise, but his argument seems to fall down given
the code concerned isn't FSF owned (and he didn't disagree when I made
this point).
Cheers,
Olly
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