On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:24:14PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:29:38 +0400 > Alexander Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su> > > > > * Package name : eaccelerator > > Version : 0.9.5.2 > > Upstream Author : eaccelerator team http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/Team > > * URL : http://eaccelerator.net > > * License : GPL > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache > > > Some dummy packages available for now in my repository at > > http://gq.net.ru/debian > > > > I'm going to upload it after fixing some packaging issues. Feel free to > > kick me by mail, if I'm too slow. > > Are the license issues finally solved then? Last time I checked > binaries were not distributable, see for example: > > http://www.mailarchives.org/list/debian-devel/msg/2005/08164 > > grts Tim Also, in one of the many discussions about this piece of software it came out that original author of turck-mmcache (the software on which eaccelerator is based) now works for Zend. Zend produces a proprietary (and expensive) accelerator-sort of product for PHP. It is doubtful that they would enable the distribution of something that they would see as competing with their product. I seem to recall that the people who took over eaccelerator had it in mind to do a complete rewrite of the eccalerator code to break any link with turck-mmcache, allowing them to relicense eaccelerator. If that rewrite is complete, then the software may be distributable. However, I have not looked into it for quite a while. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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