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Geschrieben von: Alex
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Samstag, 07. Juli 2007 um 14:14 |
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Hi all,
I'm a bit sorry for the confusion of the changes to the license lately. Let me explain a bit what happend and why.
The old MambelFish project was released under the Apache License as I had the impression that this license fits best with what I wanted to achieve with the Fish. I always understood that the fish is a highly integrated extension for Mambo/Joomla! and it requires a free license. I used the Apache license and added a little rider to protect the name and the brands related to the project and Think Network, my company.
With the first release of Joom!Fish Geraint joined the team and we spoke about the license together. We came to the conclusion that a release of the Fish based on the GPL would be more suitable. However, we recognised that the Fish is more as a library than an application and so decided to release Joom!Fish 1.7 under the LGPL. We missed some files as we said already in the first news about this topic thats why we did it again for 1.8.
After talking to legal adivors we figured out that this change of license is not legally feasible. I'm not an expert in this topic but I understand that a component that uses GPL based code like the Joomla! Database classes can not make its own license lesser restrictive. O.k. this basically means our idea of releasing Joom!Fish under LGPL would only work if we have a LGPL based Joomla! Framework.
So basically what does this mean?
It means that the released version of Joom!Fish 1.7 can not be legally released under LGPL and that, in effect, the license should be interpretted as GPL. I also think we will need to change this in the package files sometime. For 1.8 we will use the GPL as this is one of the complaint licenses we can use.
Sorry again for the confusion but we need to stay GPL in order to use the correct license.
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