Bug 78605

Summary:	Turck-MMCache undistributable?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) <carlo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	PHP Bugs <php-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-18 17:09:15 UTC

Elizabeth Fong sought advice since Andres Solomon reported Turck-MMCache as undistributable. The software has been abandoned upstream with an unresponsive developer, but forked. However, its license (GPL) is not compatible with the license of PHP4 which it needs to be linked against. In combination this means that Debian can not distribute binary packages of Turck-MMCache.


Source: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/03/

Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-15 00:31:10 UTC

Turck-MMCache can be removed from the tree after eAccelerator is in (any day now).

I do not understand, however, the licensing issue.

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2005-02-15 00:59:49 UTC

See this discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=986362&forum_id=236228

"When Debian is distributing PHP and MMCache binaries as part of their distribution, they are violating the GPL licence."
However, the end conclusion that doing it as source code instead of binaries is perfectly legal.

Comment 3 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-15 01:05:55 UTC

This is what I meant: We are a source-based distribution and are not affected by this.

Closing as INVALID.