On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:24:14PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:29:38 +0400
> Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
>
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Alexander Gerasiov
> >
> > * Package name : eaccelerator
> > Version : 0.9.5.2
> > Upstream Author : eaccelerator team http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/Team
> > * URL : http://eaccelerator.net
> > * License : GPL
> > Programming Lang: C
> > Description : PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache
>
> > Some dummy packages available for now in my repository at
> > http://gq.net.ru/debian
> >
> > I'm going to upload it after fixing some packaging issues. Feel free to
> > kick me by mail, if I'm too slow.
>
> Are the license issues finally solved then? Last time I checked
> binaries were not distributable, see for example:
>
> http://www.mailarchives.org/list/deb...msg/2005/08164
>
> grts Tim

Also, in one of the many discussions about this piece of software it
came out that original author of turck-mmcache (the software on which
eaccelerator is based) now works for Zend. Zend produces a proprietary
(and expensive) accelerator-sort of product for PHP. It is doubtful
that they would enable the distribution of something that they would see
as competing with their product.

I seem to recall that the people who took over eaccelerator had it in
mind to do a complete rewrite of the eccalerator code to break any link
with turck-mmcache, allowing them to relicense eaccelerator. If that
rewrite is complete, then the software may be distributable. However, I
have not looked into it for quite a while.

Regards,

-Roberto

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�а Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:53:36 -0400
"Roberto C. Sánchez" запи�ано:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:24:14PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:29:38 +0400
> > Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
> >
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Owner: Alexander Gerasiov
> > >
> > > * Package name : eaccelerator
> > > Version : 0.9.5.2
> > > Upstream Author : eaccelerator team
> > > http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/Team
> > > * URL : http://eaccelerator.net
> > > * License : GPL
> > > Programming Lang: C
> > > Description : PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic
> > > content cache
> >
> > > Some dummy packages available for now in my repository at
> > > http://gq.net.ru/debian
> > >
> > > I'm going to upload it after fixing some packaging issues. Feel
> > > free to kick me by mail, if I'm too slow.
> >
> > Are the license issues finally solved then? Last time I checked
> > binaries were not distributable, see for example:
> >
> > http://www.mailarchives.org/list/deb...msg/2005/08164
> >
> > grts Tim
>
> Also, in one of the many discussions about this piece of software it
> came out that original author of turck-mmcache (the software on which
> eaccelerator is based) now works for Zend. Zend produces a
> proprietary (and expensive) accelerator-sort of product for PHP. It
> is doubtful that they would enable the distribution of something that
> they would see as competing with their product.
>
> I seem to recall that the people who took over eaccelerator had it in
> mind to do a complete rewrite of the eccalerator code to break any
> link with turck-mmcache, allowing them to relicense eaccelerator. If
> that rewrite is complete, then the software may be distributable.
> However, I have not looked into it for quite a while.

OMG! That's why it's still unavailable in Debian =\ I didn't knew
about PHP Licence incompatibility with GPL before.

So what do you guys think about wrapper package, which allows installing
eaccelerator like
$ make-eaccelerator-package
?

As I understand all this legal issues it will be ok.

--
Best regards,
Alexander GQ Gerasiov

Contacts:
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