Bug#727085: Now we don't depend on the weird libevent patch
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:42:37 +0000 Paul Tarjan wrote:
> That rejection reason is pretty squarely aimed at people writing
> applications in the PHP language and makes sense for them.
Not really, in my opinion.
I think it's a valid rejection reason for anything that is not the
reference PHP implementation published and copyrighted by the PHP Group.
Personally, I consider the PHP License non-free even for PHP itself,
but that's another story:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00272.html
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> As for the direct question. Much of our extension code was directly
> imported from php-src so we will absolutely be unable to relicense
> that portion. Untangling our contributions from the php-src ones is a
> very arduous task since there are many bug fixes to their code (some
> upstreamed, some not) as well as API changes and data structure
> replacements. We are happy with the php license so releasing the
> whole package under the same umbrella makes development much easier.
Please let me understand: do you mean that hhvm includes code derived
from the reference PHP implementation published and copyrighted by the
PHP Group?
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