[Xapian-discuss] Re: [Swig-devel] license issue

[William S Fulton]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:06:54PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
>> William, I think we can easily change the license emitted by the code
>> generator for the php module.
>>
>> Olly, until then I think it is fine to edit the generated code and
>> change the license. The xapian authors are the ones licensing the code
>> there.
> 
> The generated file contains code from SWIG too though.
> 
> I suspect the inclusion of the PHP licence boilerplate wasn't fully
> though through, but it could be that Richard Palmer made use of code
> from PHP itself which had that licence, and that this code can get
> inserted into the generated file, so just removing the licence seems
> unwise.  Similarly, I don't think it's wise to just remove it from
> SWIG unless we have a firm idea why it was added in the first place.
> 

Agreed we can't just stop removing the licence stuff until we understand 
why it was erroneously put there in the first place.

William