Bug#340489: [Ming-dev] Ming licensing issues
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Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Alejandro Ríos P. wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Continuing the thread on [1], and worried about other programs that
>> depend on ming and haven't been able to enter the Debian
>> distribution[2], I send this small license patch for the last cvs
>> revision of the php_ext.
>
>
> I have a need for supported Debian packages for Ming, so I'm willing to
> work w/ Mattias on these.
>
> I was about to ask about resyncing the php_ext directory w/ a more
> recent copy of the files from the php package (and I have actually done
> that in the packages I have built). I am in favor of dropping the -dev
> and -streams variants unless someone makes a case for why they are still
> needed.
>
> Does the PHP license permit us to relicense the code in the manner
> suggested by the patch? It seems like a violation of term 1 to remove
> the PHP Copyright notice like this.
>
> On the practicle side, PHP shouldn't be an issue for Debian packages as
> the regular PHP package can provide this, once ming has gone back into
> the pool. This also has the advantages of letting php_ming follow the
> PHP package versions, instead of the libming versions.
>
> Would anyone object to adding a debian directory at the top of the tree
> to facilitate building packages? We could also add a spec file if
> someone would provide it.
>
>
> Stuart
>
> Stuart R. Anderson anderson@netsweng.com
> Network & Software Engineering http://www.netsweng.com/
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The most important thing right now is probably to get the actual ming
library accepted to the archive. I suggest we just leave the parts out
that have licensing issues (currently java_ext and php_ext). They can
easily be brought back at a later stage when things have been sorted
out, the php wrapper perhaps living under php itself as Stuart mentioned.
If there are no objections to this I'll reupload libming within a few
days, hopefully being accepted by the ftpmasters.
Regards,
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Mattias Nordstrom
CTO
Realnode Oy
nordstrom@realnode.com
www.realnode.com
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