Hi, Via the magic of git cherry-pick -X ignore-space-change, it turns out that at least some patches made on Koha's fork of SipServer (a.k.a. OpenNCIP) can be brought over mostly as is.
For example, consider Koha bug 3723 [1], SIPServer bug 1180479 [2], and the patch of Colin's I was able to cherry-pick as a proposed fix for SIPServer [3]. SIPServer is a GPL2+ project (though note that although the license change from GPL2 to GPL2+ has been agreed to by all significantly copyright holders, there's a patch pending to update the source files accordingly). Koha, of course, is GPL3+ and once was GPL2+. Per my reading of the GPL compatibility matrix [4], I don't see any licensing bar to cherry-picking patches over from Koha to SIPServer, because future releases of SIPServer can be "conveyed" as GPL3. Consequently, I intend to do some cherry-picking to help move us to the point where Koha can fold its fork into. If anybody sees a technical or licensing problem with this, please let me know. [1] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3723 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/sipserver/+bug/1180479 [3] http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/SIPServer.git;a=commit;h=bbee352fc8c275ff65f816120b7ac9f4cf969c39 [4] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: [email protected] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
