On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:48:04 you wrote: > * Package name : nanoweb > Version : 1.9.1 > Upstream Author : Vincent NEGRIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://nanoweb.si.kz/ > * License : GPL > Description : A smart modular web server written in PHP
The license listed is GPL. PHP is GPL-incompatible. You cannot distribute GPL software together with GPL-incompatible software that it depends on without a license exemption from the copyright holder of the GPL software. See the history of KDE in Debian, and the recent handling of OpenSSL in main, for precedent. It is not legally clear that just because someone has written a GPL component that depends on GPL-incompatible components, they intend to permit the distribution of these components together. For example, you could not run components of the GNU system without non-free software for the first seven years or so of its existence, but the GPL was nevertheless written to prohibit distributing the GNU software together with proprietary Unixes. In addition, the concept of a webserver written entirely in PHP is utterly abominable, an example of total programming putrifaction. I expect this code to be so inherently unmaintainable that its very presence would warrant an RC bug. As a DD and as a user of PHP, I would ask that this package not be uploaded to Debian. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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