As far as my small licensing knowledge goes, derivatives of a MIT-licensed work can be licensed under GPL, but the original copyright notice has to be left.
Not to mean that it would be a good idea to fork CakePHP under a not backwards-compatible open source license, which would prevent from a potential merge with the main code base in the future. 2008/10/23 Gwoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > No, only the owner of the copyright can change the license. Depending > on the size of the changes you make, you may or may not be able to > claim ownership in the copyright. By my estimation, you would have to > substantially change more than 50% of every class. That means > modifying the logic not just changing names around. Anyway, you can > make changes to the framework without changing the license. If you > think your changes are that great, you should really think again. > > > -- Sincerely yours, Olexandr Melnyk http://omelnyk.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
