PHP 2.02 license is not appropriate for a third-party module

tony2001 / pinba_extension

Pinba PHP extension

http://pinba.org

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1

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PHP 2.02 license is not appropriate for a third-party module #8

Closed vincentbernat closed 11 years ago

vincentbernat commented 11 years ago

Hi!

I am in the process of packaging Pinba for inclusion into Debian and Ubuntu. PHP 2.02 license is a showstopper as it is cannot be used outside of PHP. See this FAQ: http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html. Would you be willing to relicense to another license like 2-clause BSD or LGPL?

If yes, could you say that this relicensing also applies to 1.0.0. This would allow me to push this version to Debian.

Thanks.

tony2001 commented 11 years ago

TBH, I think your lawyer is wrong - this is a PHP extension, hence all the rules that are applied to PHP, can be also applied here, doesn't matter if the extension is distributed using 'official' channels or not. But in the same time, I see no problem in changing the license to LGPL. So it's done.