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

[Sigurd Nes]

> 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.
>
> Regardless of which license the project uses, I feel that it is totally
> unacceptable for a GNU package to attempt skirt around the requirements
> of the GPL in such a way.
>
> In addition to this the FSF has already indicated (and communicated this
> to Sigurd) that they would not support the project reverting to GPLv2
> just so the project can use some GPLv2 only code.

Nope - that's a lie.

>
> Sigurd has been playing divisive games around licensing for years, first
> it was suggesting using AGPL, then it was switching back to GPLv2. This
> is one of the reasons why I stopped working on the project, having to
> constantly deal with Sigurd and his stupid games. He may claim to be
> ignorant of the above issues, but that is crap it has been explained to
> him at length many times.
>
> As someone else has already suggested, Sigurd is free to take the GPLv2
> code, fork and start his own project, and so long as he complies with
> the requirements of the GPL he is free to do as he wants.
>
> Good luck to those who continue on with the project, I just hope you
> have the patience and energy to deal with Sigurd and his games.
>

Well - after Dave has left the tent - I sure all will calm down nicely :)

Regards

Sigurd