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Re: Clarification regarding PHP License and DFSG status



* Matthew Palmer:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * MJ Ray:
>> 
>> > Do you think that this licence does not require a developer
>> > of a modified package (other than PHP) to lie by saying
>> > "This product includes PHP software"?
>> 
>> Perhaps the PHP folks subscribe to the view that PHP scripts are
>> derivative works of PHP.
>
> Ye ghods, I'd hope not.  That would be similar to believing that this
> message is a derivative of the English Grammar manual I read in school.

Or that all non-trivial Emacs Lisp code must be licensed under the
GPL.  This position is not *that* unusual...



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