On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:50:08 +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Hello folks,
I recently had a few discussions about the license under which Roundcube
is
published. Currently this is GPLv2 and I think it's time to change it.
Therefore I'd like to share some thoughts with you and invite you to
share
your opinions about this topic. For me there are three possible
directions
to go:
To change the licence you will need the agreement of all contributors (since the current Roundcube code is a derivative work of all their contributions).
- Upgrade to GPLv3
I would be happy with version 3 of the GPL.
- Switch to AGPLv3
I think this licence may deter some people from using Roundcube because of the requirement to make source code available to users and therefore may reduce contributions and bug reports.
- Switch to LGPL
I think the LGPL is inappropriate. PHP (which Roundcube is written in) is usually distributed in source form. It makes little sense to have LGPL PHP code.
Regards, Chris
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