Bug#183672: PHP-Nuke: copyright report
Branden Robinson wrote:
This is an extremely important point; Mr. Espuny, please research this
issue and get back to us as soon as you can. If Mr. Landry's fears are
founded, then Debian might be infringing the copyrights of people
*other* than Mr. Burzi, *right now*.
This is a little summary report of licenses included in PHP-Nuke origial
package, as distributed by the author (half quoted text is extracted "as
is" from original distribution files).
1) There is a "README" file containing the following text about license:
"PHP-Nuke is free software, released under GNU GPL Licence version 2.0
(see COPYING file for details)"
2) There is a "COPYING" file containing GPL v2 exactly ( at least it
seems so): no execptions, no ademdums.
3) There is a "ADDONS-MODULES" containing information for PHP-Nuke
modules developers, with the following about license:
"COPYRIGHT WARNING!!!
Since PHP-Nuke is licensed under the GNU/GPL License, whatever module,
addon, plugin, theme, block, etc. that needs any PHP-Nuke part of code
to properly run need to be released under a GPL compatible license.
Please read the GPL License carefully, it's in the included COPYING
file"
4) There is a "CREDITS" containing the next:
"* Additional Credits
Please see each script file for respective credits and copyrights. PHP-Nuke
doesn't include any script that isn't licensed under the GNU/GPL.
Bug fixes have their credits in the fixed file as a comment inside the
code."
5)There is a "SUPPORT" file containing the following:
"- How to support PHP-Nuke project?
I made this software free, and released it under GPL, so this software
costs you exactly "nothing". All that I ask you is, if you use it "please"
leave a link from your pages to http://phpnuke.org saying at least
"Powered by
PHP-Nuke so others can know that you're using PHP-Nuke. That's all I ask."
6) The infamous evil addendum is included in "INSTALL" file , not in
"COPYING" (i don't now if this fact is relevant at all), as follows:
"I M P O R T A N T N O T E
IMPORTANT: I saw many sites that removes the copyright line in the footer
of each page. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REMOVE NOR CHANGE/EDIT THAT NOTE. If I
still see this problem happening I'll need to take extreme measures that
can include: to change the PHP-Nuke license, to encrypt some parts of the
code, stop distributing it for free and in an extreme case stop developing
it. The decision is in your hands.
If you do not agreed with this simple rule, delete all PHP-Nuke files
rigth now and move away from it. Thanks."
The copyright line in the footter as reads in every page is the next
" Web site engine's code is Copyright © 2002 by PHP-Nuke
<http://phpnuke.org>. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software
released under the GNU/GPL license <http://www.gnu.org>."
7)Now, some modules (apparently the ones not programed by FB) included
in original distribution came with a "copyright.php" PHP script. All of
those files are similar. Extracted from one of them:
"
/************************************************************************/
/* PHP-NUKE: Web Portal System */
/* =========================== */
/* */
/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi */
/* http://phpnuke.org */
/* */
/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */
/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */
/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License. */
/************************************************************************/
// To have the Copyright window work in your module just fill the following
// required information and then copy the file "copyright.php" into your
// module's directory. It's all, as easy as it sounds ;)
// NOTE: in $download_location PLEASE give the direct download link to
the file!!!
$author_name = "Francisco Burzi";
$author_email = "";
$author_homepage = "http://phpnuke.org";;
$license = "GNU/GPL";
$download_location = "";
$module_version = "1.0";
$module_description = "This is a sample module to show how this stuff
works.";
// DO NOT TOUCH THE FOLLOWING COPYRIGHT CODE. YOU'RE JUST ALLOWED TO
CHANGE YOUR "OWN"
// MODULE'S DATA (SEE ABOVE) SO THE SYSTEM CAN BE ABLE TO SHOW THE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
// FOR YOUR MODULE/ADDON. PLAY FAIR WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED CODING
WHAT YOU USE!!
// YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MODIFY ANYTHING ELSE THAN THE ABOVE REQUIRED
INFORMATION.
// AND YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DELETE THIS FILE NOR TO CHANGE ANYTHING
FROM THIS FILE IF
// YOU'RE NOT THIS MODULE'S AUTHOR."
Apparently it seems to be a script to show in a javascript window the
copyright of module's author. All of them claim to be GPL.
8) Last one, _every_ PHP script on distribution contains the next header
in the beginning of the code:
"/************************************************************************/
/* PHP-NUKE: Advanced Content Management System */
/* ============================================ */
/* */
/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi */
/* http://phpnuke.org */
/* */
/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */
/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */
/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License. */
/************************************************************************/"
Conclusions up to you ...
--
bye,
Hugo Espuny hec@espuny.net | GNUPG key:
debian developer hec@debian.org | pub 1024D/E8074ECF 2002-06-28
For more info, visit http://www.debian.org | sub 1024g/2953AFAB 2002-06-28
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