Re: [DOC-LICENSE] phpdoc license

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

Can you give more detail on why was the license changed?

Derick Rethans wrote:
> 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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Regards,

Lior Kaplan
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http://www.Guides.co.il

Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID)