Hi!
That's like saying Apache license is only valid for Apache httpd, and
> Debian began to send requests to change PHP license for the PHP
> Extension arguing that the PHP License is only valid for PHP itself.
Mozilla license is only valid for Mozilla Firefox. Makes little sense to
me.
OTOH, I don't think anything really prevents PECL extension authors
to dual-license their extensions under whatever Debian would like, if
they want so. People that aren't extension authors probably can't do
much here though.
But, since PHP itself is under PHP license, and extensions probably use
substantial parts of PHP code and thus arguably can be considered as
derived works, all the limitations that PHP License puts on derived
works would apply to them still.
Though not pretending to understand how
it really works legally, I guess Debian should have some lawyers that
understand it.
So I guess I'm not sure what we can really do here or what Debian wants
to happen.