Le dim 17 septembre 2006 19:35, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:07:57PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le dim 17 septembre 2006 16:11, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > > Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org> > > > > bah stupid template... > > > > reportbug should barf when such things are forgotten :| > > > > anyway the package is in NEW, and debian/copyright is ok > > Have you checked out these threads? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00681.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00148.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/09/msg00440.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/11/msg00078.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00130.html > > Basically, I tried to package this more than a year ago and was > basically not able to finish. So, unless the legal issues have been > resolved, this package will likely not be possible. The root of the > problem is that the GPL is not compatible with the PHP license. > There is no way around it, other than a clean rewrite of eacclerator > by people who have not seen the mmchache-derived code. hmm, right. the thing is, the code has been rewriten for the most part of it, so they are not tied with the turck-mmcache copyright holders anymore (afaict). so maybe it's possible to discuss it with upstream. so basically, what has to be done? they must just explain that they allow anyone to build their GPL software against php, is that it ? the situations changed in the sense that we are not tied because of the past anymore. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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