Re: Bug#506609: axyl: code copy of Xinha ships the ImageManager plugin released under the PHP 2.02 licence

[Paul Waite <paul@waite.net.nz>]

Raphael Geissert wrote:
> severity 506609 serious
> thanks
> 
> MJ Ray wrote:
> 
>> Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> -legal: can a final concensus be reached on whether this licence is
>>> DFSG-free?
>> I'm happy to support
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00128.html
> 
> Ok, bumping up the severity.
> 
>> To summarise:-
>>
>> - unacceptable name approval restrictions for anything except PHP
>> (DFSG 4);
>>
>> - general non-applicability and false statements for anything other
>> than PHP Group works.
>>
>> Furthermore, the licence is generally vague and ambiguous and open to
>> various interpretations.  It's disappointing it remains unfixed.
> 
> Another discussion with some of the php folks may help (adding an entry on my
> todo list).


This is all extremely interesting for future reference, however I have
requested that axyl be removed from the archive, so please don't do
any further investigation or work on this on axyl's account.
See Bug#506624 (and associated Bug#506623 for axyl-lucene)

Cheers!
Paul.