Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Licence Break

[Fernando Augusto]

Hi Skee3r
what was the answer for this mail?
Em Quarta 02 Outubro 2002 12:08 am, Dan Kuykendall escreveu:
> I have sent the following message to them
> -------------------------------------------
> Subject: GroupWare
>
> I was excited to hear about your groupware product which appears to be
> based on phpGroupWare. I am the co-founder of the phpGroupWare project
> and wish your business the best. My hope is that you will be able to
> make enough to have a developer on staff who can join the phpGroupWare
> development team to help improve the program for our next versions.
>
> We have great things planned for the next release and any help your
> company can offer by way of a developer or documentation help is welcome.
>
> Im also interested in any improvements you have done so far, so would
> appreciate a copy of the source code to your release version so that I
> can look into merging your changes into our official CVS tree.
>
> I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate on improving
> phpGroupWare together so that you can offer your customers a better
> product and so that the community who has put in so much effort can
> benefit in return.
>
> Dan Kuykendall (aka Seek3r)
> of the phpGroupWare Project.
>
> Jason Wies wrote:
> > If they're just running a hosting service then they don't even have to
> > send the source code if someone requests it.  The user is only entitled
> > to the source code if they also have the binary or part of the release,
> > which is not true in the case of hosting services.
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
> >
> > It does look they're selling it/giving it away though since they list
> > system requirements.  Even that is ok by the GPL under most
> > circumstances.  Not much point in speculating though, hopefully someone
> > who speaks Portugese will be able to find out for sure and let us know.
> >
> > Jason Wies aka Zone
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:33:46AM -0700, Dan Kuykendall wrote:
> >>I dont see that they are doing anything wrong. The code is GPL'd so they
> >>are welcome to use it.
> >>The only two requirements are
> >>1) If someone _request_ the source code, then they must send that person
> >>the code.
> >>2) They must include the license header in the sourcecode files.
> >>
> >>If they fail to do either of these things they may be in a GPL
> >>vilolation, but nothing I see indicates this to be the case.
> >>We could test by making a request for their source.
> >>
> >>Dan
> >>
> >>Jean Everson Martina wrote:
> >>>Hi All,
> >>>
> >>>   I don't know if this the right place to post, but I've found here in
> >>> brazil one company using phpgroupware, as one of their products,
> >>> without mentionig anything about the phpgroupware project. I think this
> >>> is against the phpgroupware's GPL license.
> >>>
> >>>plese take a look:
> >>>
> >>>http://www.interage.com.br/produtos/produtos.htm
> >>
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