[Koha-devel] For immediate release: Koha Open Source Community Regrets Failure of PTFS, Inc. to Comply with Community Guidelines

[paul POULAIN]

Rick Welykochy a écrit :
> paul POULAIN wrote:
>
>> "PTFS has yet to participate in the community or submit a single 
>> piece of code or patch to the Project. They have not contributed to 
>> or supported the project at all," said Chris Cormack, original author 
>> of the Koha version 1.0, and current Translation Manager for the 
>> Project.
>
> If it is found that PTFS makes any changes to the source code and 
> distributes
> those changes to their customers, then under the GPL they are bound to
> make those changes available to the public.
Hi Rick,

Nope, they are bound to provide the source code to their customers, with 
the permission to modify & redistribute it themselves.

The source code IS shipped with koha, due to Perl
For permission to modify & redistribute, I bet that their customers 
don't care, so they won't (+ they don't have technical knowings probably)

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