On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:23:42AM +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: > the php scripts are licensed under the GPL. just to mention some, > which are already included in debian: postnuke, phpnuke, > phpmyadmin,...
This would not be the first time that a licensing problem slipped beneath the notice of the ftp masters. Thank you for pointing out these packages; I'll take them to debian-legal for further discussion and clarification, to make sure that the Debian archive remains in the clear legally. > SL> In addition, the concept of a webserver written entirely in PHP is > SL> utterly abominable, an example of total programming putrifaction. I > SL> expect this code to be so inherently unmaintainable that its very > SL> presence would warrant an RC bug. As a DD and as a user of PHP, I > SL> would ask that this package not be uploaded to Debian. > and as a debian user i expect the debian developers to be > broad-minded. i don't think that an open source community memeber > should be so conservative. all new developments/ideas should be > welcomed... My goal as a developer is to produce a quality OS, not to provide ftp space for every vanity project of dubious merit that someone latches onto. We do not need every "new development" to be uploaded to unstable the moment it "develops". The principle of Open Source is that superior software can be developed through open collaboration. You may consider my objection to this package a modest effort to improve the quality of software on the Internet. > and this project really shows that php isn't just a web > scripting language from now on (and you'll see that php 4.3 and 5.0 > will support client-side scripting more). It tells me more about the poor judgement of the author than it tells me about PHP as a language. I already know quite enough about PHP to understand why this software is not needed in Debian. PHP is a very good, SPECIALIZED language, and unlike many other developers, I find it has its uses. Any effort to generalize PHP is likely to impair its usefulness as a web scripting language, for no particular gain. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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