[Koha] Links shelving locations to maps

[Chris Cormack]

On 6 December 2012 13:48, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Adalid Ortiz <adalid at tij.uia.mx> wrote:
>
>> See please.... Creative Commons Licence
>>
>> // Maps v3.1.1 (823.1)
>> // University of Hartford Libraries
>> //
>> // (c) 2012, Written by Brandon J C Fuller (except where noted)
>> // Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
>> 3.0 Unported License -- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
>> // Documentation available at http://libill.hartford.edu/koha/maps
>>
>
> The fact that code is licensed under a CC license is not sufficient, as
> with the exception of the CC0, no current CC license is compatible with the
> GPL -- and anything licensed under a CC-NC license is *definitely* not
> compatible.  In order for this code to be distributed with Koha, whoever
> holds copyright to it, whether it is Brandon Fuller, the University of
> Hartford, or some other entity, would have to license it under the GPL or
> order a license that is compatible with the GPL.
>

Further to that, any license with NC clause is at odds the freedom to
use the software as you see fit.
Which is Freedom 0, of the 4 software freedoms

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

It also violates clause 5 of the Open Source Definition
http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Eric Raymond comments "Note that licenses that allow only
noncommercial use do not qualify as open-source licenses, even if they
are based on GPL or some other standard license. Such licenses
discriminate against particular occupations, persons, and groups, a
practice which the OSD's Clause 5 explicitly forbids."

Chris