On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:01:26PM +0200, Federico Gimenez Nieto wrote: > Ok, I've asked the former maintainer about the changes, he has sent me > this link [1] about packages wih similar license issues. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332617 I don't see how it's related, or how it would even solve your problem, but anyways... > I've tried to revert the changes to the original upstream license, PHP > 2.0, and i get the following lintian error: > > E: php-xml-util: copyright-refers-to-bad-php-license That appears to be the problem but just relicensing without upstream's permission is simply wrong. > There is a new upstream version with BSD license [2], probably packaging > it is the best solution, what do you think? If there is a new upstream version available there is (almost) no need to upload an older one first. If it solves bugs, even better, and you can consider your licensing issue as a bug of severity serious. So, still being no DD I'd recommend packaging the new upstream version. Hauke
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