[PEAR-BUG] Req #20317 [Opn]: Would you consider changing the license to another BSD style license?

Edit report at https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=20317&edit=1

 ID:               20317
 Updated by:       [email protected]
 Reported By:      midget at midworld dot net
 Summary:          Would you consider changing the license to another
                    BSD style license?
 Status:           Open
 Type:             Feature/Change Request
 Package:          Net_FTP
 Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
 Package Version:  1.4.0a3
 PHP Version:      Irrelevant
 Roadmap Versions: 
 New Comment:

I am not familiar with a process like this, but should all contributors
agree with the change?


Previous Comments:
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[2014-10-26 15:56:11] midget

Hi Team,

Please, if you relicense the package and tag a new version I'll be glad
to upload it ASAP to the Debian repository.

Thanks in advance.

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[2014-10-25 10:23:15] jorrit

They are all acceptable for me too.

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[2014-10-25 01:59:39] midget

Hi,

Thanks for your quick answer.

Any of these licenses are acceptable.

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses

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[2014-10-24 23:43:00] jorrit

Anything I contributed (it's not much) can be relicensed to LGPL, 
BSD or MIT.

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[2014-10-24 23:24:28] midget

Hi Team,

Debian FTP Masters seems to have a final decision about packages related
to 'PHP License' [0] in Debian repositories.

  "PHP License (any version) is suitable only for software that comes
directly from 'PHP Group', that basically means only PHP (src:php5)
itself."


Debian gives several options [1]... here are:

    1. Ask upstream to re-license the software to different free
license
       - BSD or MIT/Expat is the closest one.

    2. Show that the software in question does come from "PHP Group",
       f.e. software based on src:php5 sources. Most notable example is
       src:php-json which is copy of ext/json/ adapted to libjson-c-dev
       instead of the included JSON-IS-EVIL library.

    3. We remove the source packages from Debian.



So, hereby I'm asking again for a re-licensing under BSD|MIT|whatever
compatible with GPL if it's possible before the software is permanently
removed from Debian.

Thanks in advance.



[0]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ondrej%40debian.org&tag=php-license-3.01
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752632#50

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