[Owncloud] owncloud is AGPL licensed but contains numerous instances of PHP license

[Pascal d'Hermilly]

Should the package not just have it as dependencies?

Thats what Kubuntu did for owncloud 1
Depends: apache2, php5, php-pear, php-xml-parser, php5-mysql | php5-sqlite



On 20-09-2011 14:36, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi Andrej,
>
> thats great! I look forward to see ownCloud in openSUSE. :-)
>
> ownCloud is AGPL. But we also ship other libraries in our tar file because it makes installation easier for our users. Everything is free software of course.
> I hope it´s not a problem for you that we have a mixture of licenses here.
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
>
> On 20.09.2011, at 14:26, asemen at novell.com wrote:
>
>> Hi as I am trying to add the owncloud package to openSUSE Factory did
>> run into some AGPL vs. PHP GPL-3.0 license problems.
>>
>> Could you help me on this?
>>
>> Please tell me under which license owncloud could should be published.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Andrej Semen
>>
>>
>> see also bug report
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719155
>>
>>
>> paste from from bug report comment #0
>>
>> The AGPL-3.0 and the GPL-3.0 are compatible but the AGPL-3.0 and the
>> GPL-2.0(+)
>> are not, meaning that for the purposes of opencloud, we need to treat all
>> instances of GPL-2.0+ as GPL-3.0 code. Then, the compatibility issue
>> does not
>> arise.
>>
>> However, the PHP-3.0.1 license is compatible with neither the AGPL-3.0
>> nor with
>> the GPL-3.0. This is (according to the FSF:
>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PHP-3.01) because of the
>> limitations that the PHP license puts on the use of the name "PHP" in
>> derived
>> products.
>>
>> At least the following files in owncloud (there are repetitions in file
>> names
>> here, I haven't looked to see if the files contain the same code) are
>> licensed
>> under the PHP 3.0 license. As such, according to the FSF these files are
>> incompatible with the (GPL|AGPL)-3.0 licensed files in owncloud.
>>
>> I suggest checking to see if and how such PHP licensed files are used (if at
>> all). If they are used and are "mission critical" we should definitely ask
>> upstream if they are aware of the issue and intend to address it.
>>
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Autoloader.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Build.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Common.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Config.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Config.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Packager.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Remote.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/System.php
>> owncloud._/3rdparty/XML/Parser.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Autoloader.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Build.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Common.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Config.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Config.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Packager.php
>> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Remote.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/Assert.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/Gtk.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/HTML.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/SetupDecorator.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/RepeatedTest.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/Skeleton.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestCase.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestDecorator.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestFailure.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestListener.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestResult.php
>> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestSuite.php
>> owncloud/inc/packages/DB.xml
>> owncloud/inc/packages/Log.xml
>> owncloud/inc/packages/Mail.xml
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Autoloader.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Build.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Common.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Config.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
>> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
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