[Koha] Proposal To Switch Koha's License to GPLv3 and AGPLv3 or AGPLv3

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> > Christopher Nighswonger wrote:
> >> In light of the momentum the community has built up in the area of
> >> change in recent months, now would be a good time to resume licensing
> >> discussions and bring them to a final resolve.
> >
> > I cannot contribute fully to this discussion at this time.  Please can
> > we try to limit the number of simultaneous disruptive changes?  As you
> > know, we have 3.2 releasing, new websites and urgent trademark
> > challenges which I'd like to contribute to and my work is already
> > spread a bit too thin.  Please can we leave this until after 3.2.0?
>
> I, for one, do not want to attempt relicensing prior to release of
> 3.2.0 or as a condition for release of that version.  Personally,
> while I am currently in favor of relicensing to GPL3+ (assuming that
> we can resolve the matter of dependencies on GPL2 code such as
> OpenNCIP) and think that the AGPL3 should be considered as well, it
> would be too disruptive to even think of doing this for 3.2.
>
>
I also concur that this is not a change to be made in 3.2.


> However, since the proposal is relevant for 3.4, I do think that now
> is as a good a time as any to start a discussion of this issue.
>

Ditto.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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