[Mageia-webteam] Forum installation (almost) complete

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 10:21 +0100, Maât a écrit :
>> Le 23/02/2011 10:06, Michael Scherer a écrit :
>> >
>> > 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) ?
>
> I wish that would be so simple.

Then couldn't we just keep both separate in our repository (with each
relative licenses) and have those integrated only for the production
server? or too complex?

(I mean, if that isn't even possible, that would mean that phpbb-seo
is in a dead end from the beginning wrt to license requirements from
both its own RPL and phpbb's GPL)

Romain