Bug#727085: Now we don't depend on the weird libevent patch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:03:38AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
>> 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
That's seems to be an old email, things may changed a bit since then.
> Just to clarify, since Paul may not be accustomed with Debian's
> structure or your involvement: this is your opinion but you're not a
> member of the Debian project and you're certainly not the decision maker
> for DFSG-freeness.
It seems he _is_ connected with Debian. At least apt-listbugs[1]
developed and maintained by him.
> PHP is in the archive and is licensed under the PHP License to my
> knowledge, so the current ftp-masters' stance is that it's a perfectly
> acceptable license for inclusion into Debian.
I think he meant PHP License is not free for _other_ software than
PHP itself. But I'm neither a legal person and will let the FTP
Masters decide on this. I know one of them personally, may ask him in
advance for a legal standpoint.
I'm still interested about HHVM, will retry its packaging next year.
Regards,
Laszlo/GCS
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-listbugs.html
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