[Mageia-sysadm] Fwd: Re: Question de licence

Maât maat-ml at vilarem.net
Tue Mar 15 17:27:39 CET 2011


Le 15/03/2011 12:28, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:43, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am Dienstag 15 März 2011, 00:11:51 schrieb Michael Scherer:
>>> Given the fact that all people with enough knowledge wrt opensource
>>> licensing I can think of are americans, like Tom Spot ( fedora license
>>> guy, who gave us advice for the gsoap issue ), or Eben Moglen ( FSF
>>> lawyer ), I think keeping things in english would greatly help to have
>>> their opinion.
>>>
>>> ( and for the record, that's tv who explained to me long time ago why we
>>> should use english even for internal discussion in Mandrakesoft , as you
>>> never know where you will forward your list ).
>> Thanks! I was trying to understand, what you were talking about but didn't
>> want to ask if you couldn't do it in English...
> Well, summarized (correct me if I'm wrong), the thing is:
>  * phpbb is under GPL;
>  * phpbb-seo, that heavily/exclusively relies on phpbb to provide seo
> improvements to it, is under RPL.
>
> Both license are not compatible:
>  * RPL requires you to republish the changes you made when integrating
> the code into something else;
>  * but what license would be the mix under? GPL according to phpbb,
> RPL according to phpbb-seo.
>
> phpbb-seo developers show that they don't mean to embarrass people
> that want to use the module and republish the changes, their goal is
> to avoid commercial/unfair reuse/redistribution of their code. But
> that in turn doesn't change the fact that the license is incompatible
> with GPL.
>
> So among other possible solutions would be:
>  * using both, and going further with the fact that we have a code
> repository that is not redistributable at all, since it's a mix of
> things whose licenses prevent it to contractually exist (although it
> can, that's the fun thing with chimera);
>  * not using phpbb-seo as long as the license is not clearly
> compatible with GPL (and develop or not our own solution for that).
>
> There may be other clean solutions, but not sure about that.
>
> Romain
thanks romain for french->english translation/summary

:)




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