[Koha] Koha Usage Examples

Mark Johnson mark.johnson at it.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 30 02:59:22 NZDT 2013


On 29/01/13 13:28, Owen Leonard wrote:
>> We've not changed the link for Koha to point to koha-community.org, as
>> requested by a message on Twitter[2].
>
> I assume that by "not" you mean "now" :)

Whoops! Yes, you're right.

>> It was my understanding that LibLime was simply a company providing
>> commercial support for the open source Koha product.  Am I now correct in
>> believing that it (also?) produces a separate, closed-source product called
>> "LibLime Academic Koha"?
>
> LibLime does not support any version of Koha which is developed by the
> Koha open source community. They support one version, LibLime Koha
> 4-something, which is ostensibly open source because they sometimes
> push to a github repo, but which is developed exclusively by LibLime
> in isolation.
 >
> They also sell "LibLime Academic Koha," which is 100% closed-source,
> despite being based on GPL'ed code. Both versions diverged from Koha
> around version 3.2. No one from LibLime contributes back to the open
> source version of Koha anymore.

OK, thanks for clearing that up!

-- 
Mark Johnson
Development Manager
OSS Watch http://oss-watch.ac.uk


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