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Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable



Excerpts from md's message of 2014-06-30 14:18:15 -0700:
> On Jun 30, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ubuntu would follow suit I think. It would be too much of a burden to
> > carry all of that without Debian maintainer assistance.
> If manpower is a problem for them then I expect that they would keep at 
> least the handful of critically important extensions, or they would lose 
> too much market share.
> 

Or perhaps they'd use what little manpower they do have available to
approach upstreams about correcting the false statements their license
makes and becoming GPL compatible.

If we act quickly and get the critical ones fixed, nobody will care
about the others and they'll follow suit if they want back in Debian.


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