On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 04:44:39PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > The copyright holder of a work is free to license the work under the > terms of his choosing. Although the PHP-Nuke author has stated the work > is under the GPL, he imposes the additional restriction (one which we > believe is NOT part of the GPL normally) to display credits on every web > page output by the software. As such, the consensus on debian-legal is > that PHP-Nuke does not comply with the DFSG and should not be included > in Debian's main archive. This point should probably be clarified. The reason PHP-Nuke was regarded as non-DFSG-free was because the author's additional restriction created, in our opinion, a license that was impossible to satisfy. Sections 6 and 7 of the GNU GPL say: 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License. 7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. Debian interprets "this License" and "herein" to mean the conditions of the GNU GPL expressed in its text; no more and no less. We interpreted the PHP-Nuke author's additional restriction as just that, with the consequences you'd expect from the above. In our assessment, PHP-Nuke isn't licensed to the public at all (as far as we can tell), and we cannot distribute it -- even in our "non-free" archive. -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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