Re: [DOC-LICENSE] phpdoc license

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote:

> I'm the maintainer of the Debian phpdoc package
> (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/phpdoc).
> 
> I'd like to ask why did you change the license to OPL?
> 
> Since Debian considers the OPL as non-free,
> (http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/dls-005-opl)  I can't distribute
> phpdoc with Debian officially.
> 
> Any change you'd change this to another license? Is there someone
> particular I should try to convince?

The change of license was done after endless consulting with the 
primairy authors and the current maintainers. I'm afraid that we will 
not change it.

Also, I think the only person that you need to convince is the debian 
legal people which are anally retentive about what is non free or not.

Derick

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