I just wanted to make sure that all relevant RC bugs were aware of the following debian-legal post by MJ Ray:
"The PHP licence could be OK for any software which has PHP Group contribution (regardless who is licensing later), but would require lying about other software. So, it is possible for others to use it 'freely' when PHP Group was involved upstream and avoid the problem you describe. "Please leave the PHP licence bugs open for software which has no contribution by the PHP Group (which seems true for one or two pear packages IIRC). I don't think the PHP licence can be accepted as always-OK for others yet." http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/12/msg00142.html Of course his comments are not binding on Debian, but they do express a train of thought which has not been satisfactorily refuted on debian-legal. To summarize the long and continuing thread on "Clarification regarding PHP License and DFSG status", there have been many comments questioning the freeness of the PHP License, but there has been no refutal to my proposal (agreed to by MJ above) that whatever the status of the PHP License in Debian, it be applied equally to PHP and PHP Group software. cheers, Charles -- A better buy -- why not try Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1939/a_better_buy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
