[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger crm licence and debian package

[Fathi BOUDRA]

Talking about vtiger crm 5.x licence, as i understand, it will be released 
under a LGPL license.

> Apache and Mysql are included in the binary distribution of vtiger but
> not in the source archive.

which binary version of vtiger ? vtiger isn't a binary apps (as you said no 
comipilation, no linking), it's sources only.

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.

In all cases, apache or mysql aren't components of vtiger crm, just components 
of the easy setup for windows that we provide.

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 ?

i know, this is just an interpretation, but this is the lawyers way, and they 
play wiith words.

cheers,

Fathi

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.