Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] GPLv3 (was Who wants to play?)

[Benoit Hamet]

Hi all,

Maât a écrit :
> Sigurd Nes wrote:
>>> From: Dave Hall address@hidden
>>> Sent: 2009-11-09 13:13:21 CET
>>> To: address@hidden
>>> 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" :)
> 
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> 
> 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 ?
Well, rewriting something on top of http://swiftmailer.org/ could be an
option. If I understand all the questions and needs ...

I have asked to FSF an advice about the potential usage of the symfony
project or the zend framework. let see what they "officialy" think of it.

Btw, for me the debate on the code license is closed. it's GPLv3 or
later, as per recommended policy of the FSF / GNU Project. If we start
from scratch, we can then discuss the "right" license, still depending
on the FSF / GNU Project point of view.

I want to thank maat for his help building the new repositories, as well
as moving the debate on.

Regards,

Caeies.