[Koha] Koha with a proprietary frontend?

[Jonas Karlsson]

Joe Atzberger wrote:
> Jonas --
> 
> You can remix GPL code w/ your own proprietary code as much as you like, as
> long as you don't distribute the result (as proprietary code).

I know they intend to submit any changes/improvements/translations back to Koha, they seem really to be really interested in doing things
right 'the open source way'. Exactly what that means is up in the air right now, I guess it depends on if the requested financing comes
through just how extensive their plans become.

> The task of swapping in a new front end might be fairly difficult though.
> It could be easier to work on configuring and expanding Koha to emulate the
> appearance and functionality in your current OPAC.

Hmm. I was afraid of that. Well, I'll play around with Koha a bit and see how it looks.

> The first thing to do is install a stock version of Koha and start playing
> around with it, so you can see how the OPAC interface is structured.

Yeah, I tried that last weekend, but my Ubuntu machine chose that time to act up, thus consuming the weekend's free time with nothing to
show for it. I'll have to try again over the weekend. (We're still in the pre-prestudy phase, no real budget for experimenting has been
allocated, but it seems interesting enough that I'll have to play around some on my free time. :)

Thank you for your reply,
Jonas