Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>>As Rasmus, and I, said numerous times, the PHP License is a perfectly
>>valid choice as long as the software are distributed under *.php.net.
>
> This reading clearly fails DFSG#3 and OSD#3 at the very least, and makes
> *all* software using the PHP Licence non-free, because redistribution of
> derived works is only permitted from *.php.net which is clearly inaccep-
> table. This makes not just forking the software impossible but also dis-
> tribution of binaries made from modified sources, for example.
This is a wrong interpretation. The releases are/must be distributed
under *.php.net to be able to use the PHP License. It means that one
reading the license after having installed php using apt-get php5 will
find all software installed with php5. There is nothing wrong here and
nothing about the location of the software release is against Free
Software.
The incompatibility between Free Software's GPL and the PHP license is
only due to the naming restriction and nothing else.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org
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