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



On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 02:22:22PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from md's message of 2014-06-26 16:54:11 -0700:
> > On Jun 26, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote:

> > > Oh good, another discussion where we argue against our principles. I
> > And which principles would be that, exactly?

> https://www.debian.org/social_contract

> Specifically, we won't hide problems and Debian will remain 100% free.

> Unless I'm mistaken, the wording in the PHP license makes it invalid for
> anybody that isn't actually the PHP project to use without making a
> false claim that "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT
> TEAM".

> It is also GPL incompatible due to restrictions it places on the
> licensee's activities and the word PHP.

PHP as a whole is GPL-incompatible and this won't change; and GPL
compatibility is a non-issue for interpreted languages.  So this last bit
isn't really relevant here.

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