Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable
Excerpts from Steve Langasek's message of 2014-06-30 14:39:03 -0700:
> 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.
>
This is about extensions, so it is entirely likely that extensions want
to link to GPL and LGPL libraries where PHP itself does not.
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