On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:42:34 +0000 Deepak Tripathi wrote: > Hi , > > I have orphaned three php package and it has php 3.0 license. Mmmh, maybe you mean that you have *prepared* three packages... > Is there any licensing issue with php 3 or should i go ahead. It seems that php-apc is licensed under the terms of the PHP License version 3.01. This license is definitely unacceptable for anything other than PHP itself (or, at best, software by the PHP Group). Hence, if php-apc cannot be considered part of PHP itself (or software written by the PHP Group), I think it will get rejected by ftp-masters, see the reject FAQ [1]. [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html Moreover, I personally think that the PHP License (up to version 3.01), fails to meet the DFSG even for PHP itself. This is my own opinion and was stated several times on debian-legal, but other people seem to disagree and/or don't seem to care much. See my analysis [2] of the license for the gory details. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00272.html I would suggest that you try and persuade upstream to relicense under a widely-accepted license (such as the Expat/MIT license [3]). [3] http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt Important disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. [...] > PS : please CC to me i haven't subscribe. Done. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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