Re: Quality assurance proposition for HTMLSax3

On 21.10.2007, at 14:25, Romain Beauxis wrote:

Le Saturday 20 October 2007 20:05:41 Lukas Kahwe Smith, vous avez écrit :

On 20.10.2007, at 19:50, Frank Habermann wrote:

Hi, what will happen if he will/can not change the license problems? Can somebody else can do this? Or will we ever live with that problem?

Only the author can change the license. I will bug him some more.

Are you sure ? Based on license's clause: 5. The PHP Group may publish revised and/or new versions of the

     license from time to time. Each version will be given a
     distinguishing version number.
     Once covered code has been published under a particular version
     of the license, you may always continue to use it under the terms
     of that version. You may also choose to use such covered code
     under the terms of any subsequent version of the license
     published by the PHP Group. No one other than the PHP Group has
     the right to modify the terms applicable to covered code created
     under this License.

My understading is then that any licencee may redistribute the software under any subsequent licence published by the PHP group. That's why I've uploaded a debian package one week ago: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/new/php-xml-htmlsax3_3.0.0~rc1-1_amd64.html Of course, a clear relicensing from original author would be nicer..

Uhm well I thought the issue is that its not clear what license the code is released under. As a result its kinda hard to rely on a specific license in order to get the right to relicense .. regards, Lukas