Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2010-02-23 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, 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. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2010-02-23 Thread Olly Betts
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

Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2010-02-23 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 23 February 2010 19:53, Olly Betts o...@survex.com wrote: 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

Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2009-03-21 Thread Olly Betts
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:47:44PM +, Olly Betts wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:55:49AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: - check with debian-legal to confirm Have you done so since filing this bug? (Sorry for the delay in responding, BTW - I was away on holiday). No response for a

Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2009-02-22 Thread Olly Betts
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:55:49AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: This issue was raised upstream but hasn't been resolved (and probably can't at their level): http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/191 We managed to find the SWIG code contributor who added the code to SWIG which was inserting the PHP

Bug#513796: php5-xapian: PHP license incompatible with Xapian

2009-02-01 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Package: php5-xapian Version: 1.0.7-3.1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 The PHP license is incompatible with the GNU GPL license due to strong restrictions on the usage of the term 'PHP'. Thus combining PHP and Xapian through the php5-xapian module is not permitted and cannot be