On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Have you considered contacting the copyright owners to get their agreement to > add an exception? maybe it is going to be easier to add an exception than re- > licensing all the xapian code.
If you mean adding an exception to Xapian's licence, that's not feasible. I tried negotiating with two of them years ago, and it just wastes a lot of time. I'd rather spend that time working towards a version of Xapian which doesn't contain any of their code. If you mean adding an exception to PHP's licence, my understanding from reading past debian-legal threads is that this isn't likely to be achievable. Also, the PHP FAQ explicitly deals with "Why is PHP 4 not dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) like PHP 3 was?" (not adequately in my view, since they don't address incompatibility with GPL libraries, but it seems they've made their decision on this): http://php.net/license/index.php I never heard back from the FSF, so unless they reply belatedly, or I can get a legal opinion from another plausible source that GPLv3 and PHP licences are compatible, my plan is to drop php5-xapian when we get to freezing squeeze. Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
