Re: PHPNuke

[Recai Oktas <roktas@omu.edu.tr>]

* Andreas Mueller <amu@tr.debian.net> [2003-03-18 23:56:11+0100]
> just found it at debian-legal, license of PHPNuke prohibits modifications and 
> derived works. The author wants to have his copyright notice visible in the 
> footer of all pages that are rendered by PHPNuke

> This would seem to also prohibit modifications and derived works, since a
> proper copyright notice would reflect the status of the modifier.   

David Turner of FSF doesn't think so. GPL 2(c) clause which states some
spesific rules for interactive programs (like `bc', `gs' etc.)
-unfortunately- permits the author behaving this way. Anyway, after a
very long and puzzling discussion, debian-legal people has reached a
concensus that PHPNuke violates the DFSG (Debian Free Software
Guidelines) and submitted a bug report to move the package to non-free
section.

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