Hello Paul and hello László,
I've just stumbled upon your ITP bugs about hhvm and hiphop-php.
First of all, are these two bugs about the same piece of software?
Should the two bugs be merged?
This piece of software seems to be interesting: thanks for working
on its inclusion into Debian.
I have a concern, though.
If I understand correctly, this project is an interpreter or (JIT)
compiler for the PHP language, but is not PHP itself (that is to say,
it's not the reference implementation of the PHP language, developed
and copyrighted by the PHP Group).
Nonetheless, it is released under the terms of the PHP License v3.01
and the Zend Engine License.
As far as I know, this is ground for a reject from Debian.
Please see https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
("PHP License" point).
I would strongly recommend to persuade the copyright holder (Facebook,
Inc.) to re-license under more general DFSG-free terms, such as the
3-clause BSD license: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
Please let me know.
Thanks for your time!
Bye.
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