Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

I think we can remove debian-legal from this. No sense flooding them as well. > At 09:58 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > >I've never said that anything you distribute with PHP4 is problematic due > >to copyrights and licenses. I'm just saying that this license of PHP4 > >unfortunatelly prevents wider full-featured software distribution, like > >Debian :( > > I think you're wrong there. The PHP license is very close to the Apache > license which is distributed with Debian as far as I know. It is in general > more free than the PHP 3.0 license. > And checkout http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html it lists > vendors that > ship the QPL'ed libQt. > The list includes Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD etc. So I really don't see where > the problem is. Guys, we are all agreeing here, just in slightly different words. Gergely is saying that he can't distribute a Debian php package that includes any GPL'ed code. I don't quite understand why gdbm was distributed inside the Debian php3 package though, but this would be a case where the two would have to be distributed separately. I don't see any big problem with this, and I think this was all he was pointing out. -Rasmus