[Mageia-webteam] Forum installation (almost) complete

Maât maat-ml at vilarem.net
Wed Feb 23 10:21:29 CET 2011


Le 23/02/2011 10:06, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 21:41 +0100, Maât a écrit :
>> Le 22/02/2011 16:09, Michael Scherer a écrit :
>>> Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 15:08 +0100, Maât a écrit :
>>>> Le 22/02/2011 13:42, Michael Scherer a écrit :
>>>> If we don't use .htaccess then all these configs need to be moved to apache vhost config
>>> IMHO, that's safer.
>>>
>> Ok but we'll probably need to change rewrite rules from time to time...
>>
>> => problems to expect sooner or later
> Speaking of that...
>
> The phpbb_seo package is under a license called RPL, according to the
> COPYING file. This license  among others force us to provides the source
> code of the forum if we deploy it ( even privately ) for at least for 12
> months after we decided to stop use it.
>
> That's quite a strong requirement, but that's not the only issue.
>
> FSF say this is not compatible with GPL. ( see
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense ,
> search "reciprocal public license", there is also others reasons )
>
> Phpbb is distributed under the GPL, and I would like to be sure there is
> nothing fishy about that.

We could relicense the whole under AGPL v3 which fullfills all requirements (and a little more) ?





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