[Koha-devel] what about 3.2 improvements under AGPL ?

[Jesse]

2009/9/15 paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>

> Hello,
>
> What do you think about releasing all our 3.2 improvements under AGPL ?
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
>
> Summary: the AGPL makes mandatory to release source code even if your
> software is an hosted one.
>
> The AGPL is compatible with Koha, as Koha is GPL v2 *or later*
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility (AGPL is
> considered as a part of the GPL:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SeparateAffero )
>
> Of course, everything already existing, that is under GPL would stay as it.
>
> I think it would be a good idea. Publishing the source code is not
> enough (we all know that getting 400 000 lines of code without hint,
> help and a git repo would be useless), but at least, that would clarify
> our motives.
>
> cheers
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> Paul POULAIN
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If we can legally mix GPLv2 and AGPL code in the same project, I am also
behind this idea.

-- 
Jesse Weaver
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