On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:50:08 +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote: > Hello folks, > > I recently had a few discussions about the license under which Roundcube is > published. Currently this is GPLv2 and I think it's time to change it. > > Therefore I'd like to share some thoughts with you and invite you to share > your opinions about this topic. For me there are three possible directions > to go:
To change the licence you will need the agreement of all contributors (since the current Roundcube code is a derivative work of all their contributions). > 1) Upgrade to GPLv3 I would be happy with version 3 of the GPL. > 2) Switch to AGPLv3 I think this licence may deter some people from using Roundcube because of the requirement to make source code available to users and therefore may reduce contributions and bug reports. > 3) Switch to LGPL I think the LGPL is inappropriate. PHP (which Roundcube is written in) is usually distributed in source form. It makes little sense to have LGPL PHP code. Regards, Chris --- http://www.atomice.com _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
