On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
- Upgrade to GPLv3
Since I'm not very familiar with all the details I currently don't
know what kind of changes this would involve but I assume it to be an
easy and obvious step.
Depending on how you read GPLv3, it may mean all libraries and plug- ins would need to be GPLv3 too.
IANAL.
There is also the BSD license and MIT license if you are looking for
a more liberal license than the GPL.
I have seen projects use the Apache license, which you may want to
evaluate.
The Fedora Project is very strict about the licensing of the packages
in the Fedora distribution. There are good resources for licenses at :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FAQ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
For options 1) and 2) there's one addition: I think that we should
exclude the skins from the GPL restrictions because the easy customization
is what makes Roundcube nice and custom skins often include some copyrighted artwork and are pretty individual.
Content is not code, and a license for code is generally not a good
license for content.
Skins are a grey area, they are part code, part content, but I think
a skin leans more toward content.
A Creative Commons license may be more appropriate for skins.