On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:48:06 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > >> The Zend Engine is licensed to the > >> PHP Association (pursuant to a grant from Zend that can be > >> found at http://www.php.net/license/ZendGrant/) for > >> distribution to you under this license agreement, only as a > >> part of PHP. In the event that you separate the Zend Engine > >> (or any portion thereof) from the rest of the software, or > >> modify the Zend Engine, or any portion thereof, your use of the > >> separated or modified Zend Engine software shall not be governed > >> by this license, and instead shall be governed by the license > >> set forth at http://www.zend.com/license/ZendLicense/. > > > > This fails DFSG#3, as I'm not able to extract and/or modify the Zend > > Engine, thus creating a derivative work of PHP+Zend and distribute > > the result under the same terms as the license of the original > > software. > Everything else Francesco Poli wrote is correct.... but > (1) the Zend engine can be distributed and modified under the > (significantly better) Zend license. > (2) This can be used even for the distribution of the Zend engine as > *part of* PHP (as an alternative to the PHP license). > (3) If this is done, derivative works can be distributed comfortably > under the same terms. If I understand correctly, you are saying that one can * purge the Zend Engine from PHP+ZendEngine (which are under the PHP License) * take the Zend Engine as distributed by Zend (that is to say, under the Zend License) * recreate the collective work PHP+ZendEngine with PHP under the PHP License and Zend Engine under the Zend License Is this what you meant? Is this what the Debian package maintainer is doing? -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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