On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:15:56AM +0100, hec@debian.org wrote: > That's my point of view. We have judge Mr.F.Burzi and found him guilty. I do not believe this is a fair representation of the opinion of *anyone* on debian-legal. The license on PHPNuke has been judged as incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines; therefore PHPNuke as software is not qualified to be distributed as part of the Debian OS. > But he is legally innocent. We have decided this way due to our moral > conception of free software. These assertions are inapposite and irrelevant. > We already have found a bug on GLP, as Richard pointed before. It is true that we have found an ambiguity in it; whether that is a "bug" in it is a matter of opinion. > So we need a new version of GLP (at least something positive coming > out from this flame). That is not a mandatory consequence of this discussion, though it would be nice. > But in the meantime phpnuke should have the right to stay in main, No; no software has "the right to stay in main". > as it it technically GLP compilant, we liked or not. "Technically GPL-compliant" is not a meaningful phrase, or at the very least you have not provided sufficient context for me to understand what you mean by it. A license cannot "comply" with the GNU GPL; only people can do that. -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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