Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Imran G. <im...@bi...>]

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Steve Mallett wrote:

> On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:40 pm, Imran Ghory wrote:
> > On 4 May 2002, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> > > Interesting idea. Once we have the installer stuff sorted out it's
> > > really not much more work to make 3 versions.  Other plusses:
> > >
> > > 1)  Having the Corporate Backend version allows us to push some of the
> > > really heavy hitters like Apache and mySQL, without worrying about
> > > confusing the novice user.  It would also be good to associate the
> > > OpenCD project with these apps because of their good reputation.
> > >
> > > 2)  Each category can have different criteria.  The Home verion must
> > > stress simplicity while the Backend reliability, etc.  In total, this
> > > would allow many more apps to qualify.
> >
> > I've been doing some number crunching and found that their exists about
> > 240mb of programs that could go on the CD, excluding most programming type
> > software, but including some server software (Apache, MySQL, PHP and
> > Perl). So I don't think at this stage we need to break them off into
> > seperate CDs just seperate sections.
> 
> I have bad news.  PHP isn't actually opensource.  GASP!  Yes, its true, but a 
> technicality of one of the minor and ofter ignored  clauses of the Open 
> Source Definition....having you agree to another license other than the one 
> provided with the program.  I believe it is not 'free' either  (However, I 
> understand that it is being changed).

PHP 3 was dual licence under the GPL and PHP licence, clearly making it
both free and open source. PHP4 switched to the PHP Licence v2 which is
copyleft, but with the exclusion of the Zend Engine which is under QPL
which the FSF regard as non-free but the OSI regard as open source.

I assume the problem is caused by the inclusion of Zend under QPL if
seperated from PHP is the problem, but couldn't we solve that problem by
including the QPL with the program ?

Imran