Bug#498875: lintian: please detect 2.x licences and warn
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Since there has been no follow up, I'm now filing it as a bug report to have
a record.
--------------- Forwarded message
Subject: Re: Some more patches
From: Raphael Geissert
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:38:40 -0500
Newsgroup: gmane.linux.debian.devel.lint.devel
[CC'ing ftp-masters]
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery <...> writes:
>
>> The PHP 2.x tag saying that it's non-free bothers me without a reference
>> from ftp-master that it's non-free, and I don't see anything about PHP
>> 2.x
>> specifically in the REJECT FAQ. I'm personally not very comfortable with
>> Lintian making any judgements about licenses; the PHP
>
> Finishing this thought...
>
> the PHP license is a special case since it's singled out in the REJECT
> FAQ, and I'm generally in favor of writing tests for that stuff for
> multiple reasons, but I want to stay clear of any license controversies if
> we can.
>
Well, the problem is that the discussion of the PHP licences is spread in
several threads all around -legal. But it is probably better to just
paraphrase the tag and description (as it is not suitable at all for
anything by PHP itself, and even in that case there are some issues because
of the Zend engine). The whole thing is a nightmare :-/.
Or what's the ftp-masters opinion?
Cheers,
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