[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger crm licence and debian package

[Josh Lee]

I don't really have the time to get involved in this conversation, but I 
help choose which licenses we use with our Open Source software.  I 
would strongly recommend GPL for vTiger.


Brett Hooker wrote:

>Don't know if this will help the analysis, but you might like to engage 
>Brendan Scott of  Open Source Law in analyzing this for you.
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>See:
>http://www.opensourcelaw.biz
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>Might be worth getting a pro-OSS lawyer in the loop on this.
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>Mike Fedyk wrote:
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>>Finjon Kiang wrote:
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>>>On 2/1/06, Fathi Boudra <fboudra at free.fr> wrote:
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>>>>taken partly from Copyright.txt. It seems (for me) a bit incomprehensible.
>>>>Some informations are false (feel free to correct me), which part of apache or
>>>>mysql are in vtiger crm ? I'm not a lawyer but lawyer point of view is
>>>>needed. Some clarity is requested on this subject, especially when you're
>>>>looking vtiger crm story.
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>>>>cheers,
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>>>>Fathi
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>>>I got the same feeling with you. I'm not a lawyer, too. But I think
>>>vtiger crm must be released under GPL. 
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>>This is a real gray area with the GPL and interpreted languages.  The 
>>GPL talks about making the source source available for a binary 
>>distribution and it talks about compiling and linking.  Where does the 
>>compilation take place?  At each location.  The PHP bytecode is not 
>>being distributed.   Even the binary vtiger dist includes the .php 
>>source files.
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>>>MPL allows you to modify the
>>>license as you wish, 
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>>No. The MPL defines the distinction between license boundaries at the 
>>file level.  If you want to introduce another license into a MPL 
>>licensed project it needs to be in a separate file.
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>>>LGPL allows you to use the software which
>>>released under LGPL as a library and choose another license you like.
>>>But under GPL, once your software includes any GPL product, you should
>>>release your software under GPL.
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>>That is not a black and white requirement of the GPL.  There are many 
>>ways GPL code can be brought into a non-GPL project if the interactions 
>>with the GPL code are done in certain ways.
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>>I am not claiming that his has been done with vtiger though.  I'm not 
>>familiar with the code base enough yet.
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>>Mike
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