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

[Maât]

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 ?

Maât