Sigurd Nes wrote:
>> From: Dave Hall [[email protected]]
>> Sent: 2009-11-09 13:13:21 CET
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [phpGroupWare-developers] GPLv3 (was Who wants to play?)
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:49 +0100, Maât wrote:
>>
>>> Sigurd Nes wrote:
>>>
>>> for the remaining license issue i don't understand why there is a
>>> problem with GPL v3
>>>
>>> can someone explain please ?
>>>
>> Sigurd wants to import felamimail from eGroupWare - which depends on
>> PEAR code (which is PHP licensed code - read not GPLv2 or v3
>> compatible). His work around for the licensing issue is to play the
>> same game as eGroupWare by telling people to download the PHP licensed
>> code separately. This may actually constitute a GPL violation as there
>> is expert opinion around which suggests include/require in PHP
>> constitute static linking - regardless of if you distribute the code
>> with it or not.
>>
>>
>
> Btw: I can skip the felamimail application from being ported.
> That should ease the pain.
> The existing one (that does not use PEAR code) is still GPLv2 only.
>
> Regards
>
> Sigurd
>
I think you're wrong Sigurd :
felamimail either in our repository or in egw's is "version 2 or later" :)
/**************************************************************************\
* phpGroupWare - FeLaMiMail
*
* http://www.phpgroupware.org
*
* http://www.phpgw.de
*
* http://www.linux-at-work.de
*
* Written by Lars Kneschke [[email protected]]
*
* -----------------------------------------------
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it *
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the *
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your *
* option) any later version.
*
\**************************************************************************/
/**************************************************************************\
* eGroupWare - FeLaMiMail
*
* http://www.egroupware.org
*
* http://www.phpgw.de
*
* http://www.linux-at-work.de
*
* Written by Lars Kneschke [[email protected]]
*
* -----------------------------------------------
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it *
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the *
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your *
* option) any later version.
*
\**************************************************************************/
the PEAR part is perhaps more annoying (it sounds like a subtle experts
debate though)... but if the needed pear lib is not too complex we could
try to replace it ?
Maât
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