Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68665 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66523 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2013 06:01:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Aug 2013 06:01:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=remi@fedoraproject.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=remi@fedoraproject.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain fedoraproject.org from 212.27.42.1 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: remi@fedoraproject.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.27.42.1 smtp1-g21.free.fr Linux 2.6 Received: from [212.27.42.1] ([212.27.42.1:51940] helo=smtp1-g21.free.fr) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C4/F1-57841-CA3EE125 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:01:18 -0400 Received: from schrodingerscat.famillecollet.com (unknown [82.241.130.121]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2080940172 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:01:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <521EE3A4.8080807@fedoraproject.org> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:01:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130806 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP Internals References: <521E468E.5070406@sugarcrm.com> <521E534E.2060603@sugarcrm.com> <521E6E36.4060007@sugarcrm.com> <521EDD47.8020800@fedoraproject.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Attitude against distributions... (Was: JSON non-free license) From: remi@fedoraproject.org (Remi Collet) Le 29/08/2013 07:54, Pierre Joye a écrit : > hi Remi! > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Remi Collet wrote: > >> But we are PHP project members. And we ship an OpenSource software which >> is Licensed under the "PHP License", a "really" free License (per FSF >> definition). > > Ah? I always read that the PHP License is not actually Free as per FSF > definition, and not compatible with their true free license (GPL). Did > that change recently? :) This is not a problem of GPL definition. From FSF web site: "The following licenses [...which included the PHP one ...] are free software licenses, but are not compatible with the GNU GPL." And of course, only the first part is important here. So most linux distribution recognize PHP License as a free License. Remi. > > Cheers, >