Hi! I am a member of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Community. In Tiki, we include quite a few libraries: http://dev.tiki.org/External+Libraries
I am also working on "Tiki Suite", a dozen FOSS server and desktop apps to cover what 80% of the people use 80% of the time for a typical small or medium organization. -> http://suite.tiki.org/ So I invest a lot of time evaluating FOSS projects and license compatibility is important. I am also concerned with license proliferation in general, as a barrier for sharing code. I occasionally notice projects which add clauses such as this one http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2011-November/000025.html Here are three more: a) AskoziaPBX is BSD with an extra clause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AskoziaPBX http://www.askozia.com/pbx-license/ b) Roundcube intends to move to GPLv3+ with an exception: http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/announce/2011-12/0000002.html c) sipXecs is AGPL and there are some additional clauses, including "By using the sipXecs solution you agree that SIPfoundry can use your name and logo to identify you as a user of the sipXecs solution" http://www.sipfoundry.org/licensing 1- Do these examples above respect the Free Software and/or Open Source definitions? (If not, can you specify what is not respecting) Of course, they are free to use whatever license they want. However, in some cases, calling it "Open Source" or "Free Software" can be misleading. 2- If not, what is done / can be done about this? a) Contacting the project to discuss with them and try to find a solution. b) Contacting Open Source directories such as Ohloh.net and getting the project entries removed. I already started a discussion (please join in!) https://www.ohloh.net/forums/8/topics/7228 c) Correcting the Wikipedia entries d) Other? (Maintain a list of projects which claim to be Open Source but that their license is not according to experts at OSI) What do you think? Best regards, -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://Tiki.org/MarcLaporte http://AvanTech.net _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
