Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha-patches] [PATCH] Add YUI Rich Text Editor to OPAC and Koha News page
License question : I saw that your patch is using BSD licensed files. I am not a jurist nor an ayatollah of GPL. But Is it OK to use this ? (Asking all the devel persons) If it is, I found a good soft USEMARCON http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/usemarcon.html that could be quite useful in some ways in order to improve multimarc support. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT BibLibre SARL http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc tel : +33 4 67 65 75 50
Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien@koha-fr.org> wrote:
License question : I saw that your patch is using BSD licensed files. I am not a jurist nor an ayatollah of GPL.
But Is it OK to use this ? (Asking all the devel persons)
I'm not either, but this appears useful to look at: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
If it is, I found a good soft USEMARCON http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/usemarcon.html that could be quite useful in some ways in order to improve multimarc support.
I agree that USEMARCON would be nice to have. However, its license (http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/uselic.html) is neither BSD nor GPL. We would need to look at it carefully. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
License question : I saw that your patch is using BSD licensed files. I am not a jurist nor an ayatollah of GPL.
Owen has upgraded YUI from 2.3.1 version to 2.5.1 version (thanks). YUI license hasn't changed. It was BSD and it's stayed BSD. My patch uses YUI Rich Text Editor, so I added its library to Koha. That's all. I have no clue about BSD license compatibility with Koha license. For me it seems ok: http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/license.txt Maybe someone could investigate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_mu... -- Frédéric DEMIANS
Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien@koha-fr.org> wrote:
License question : I saw that your patch is using BSD licensed files. I am not a jurist nor an ayatollah of GPL.
But Is it OK to use this ? (Asking all the devel persons) [...]
Short version: it's fine, I believe. Long version: keep legal and religious hatred off this list if anyone ever wants long versions of the answers to this sort of stuff. Without the licences you wouldn't have anything to code on here. Don't obsess about them, but don't bite the hand that helps you. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237
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