[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger crm licence and debian package

[Mike Fedyk]

Fathi BOUDRA wrote:

>Talking about vtiger crm 5.x licence, as i understand, it will be released 
>under a LGPL license.
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>>Apache and Mysql are included in the binary distribution of vtiger but
>>not in the source archive.
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>which binary version of vtiger ? vtiger isn't a binary apps (as you said no 
>comipilation, no linking), it's sources only.
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Check the download page of vtiger.

>when you distribute an open source software, you provide a copyright file that 
>talk about his licensing. There's no direct link between your software and 
>how you package/bundle it. legaly, you need to provide respective licenses of 
>software that you use.
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>In all cases, apache or mysql aren't components of vtiger crm, just components 
>of the easy setup for windows that we provide.
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>Finally, what we need to know about current vtiger crm (and probably next), is 
>what portion of code aren't contribution. who is original author and what 
>license was used in his code. vtiger code and contributions from people to 
>vtiger seems dual-licensed. is it legal ? is MPL compatible with some GPL 
>portion ?
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If you are modifying a file and it is under a certain license.  Your 
modifications will have to be under the same license (this can be 
implied from the notice at the top of the file -- that is why they are 
there).  If you are adding a new file, a new compatible license can be used.

>i know, this is just an interpretation, but this is the lawyers way, and they 
>play wiith words.
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>cheers,
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>Fathi
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>PS: just a small note about MPL, according to some debian legal people
>	MPL is a non-free license, so SPL and VPL as well.
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I recommend LGPL for future vtiger contributions.  We want to encourage 
3rd party integration and the LGPL allows the codebase to be used as 
long as it is called using specified public interfaces.

Mike