Bug#903999: RFC about DFSG-freeness of PHP license [Re: Bug#903999: ITP: php-doc -- Documentation for PHP]

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org>]

Hello,

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

I talked extensively to Athos during DebConf and, after looking at the
multiple licenses and nuances involved in this problem I believe:

1) Athos followed precisely the instructions from ftp-masters
(https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html).  He also followed the
good practices pointed by Lintian.

2) IMO, it is possible to argue that php-doc is actually part of PHP
itself, judging by the fact that the project is hosted under the PHP
umbrella on the Microsoft Github repository.  If that's the case, then I
agree with Athos that we should extend the Lintian warning.

3) Ultimately, it is the ftp-master's job to determine whether php-doc's
license is suitable for Debian or not.  I don't think it's
necessary/beneficial to extend this discussion here.

Having said that, I will review and sponsor the package for Athos.

Thanks,

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