[dev] License discussion

Anil Madhavapeddy anil@recoil.org
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:14:42 +0100


On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:09:02AM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Rich Lafferty <rich@horde.org>:
> 
> > IANAL, but the usual key phrase is "a significant amount of code"; a
> > one-line patch isn't a problem, but a class or function probably would
> > be, and a module certainly is.
> 
> I saw the same discussion that started all this, and had the same thoughts 
> about reconsidering some of our license stuff. IMP is probably entrenched; 
> sorting that out would be a mess. We switched Horde to the LGPL once; I 
> wouldn't have a problem switching it to BSD if we could sort it out. Other 
> apps - Gollem, Chora, Kronolith, Turba, Nag - definitely have a small enough 
> set of contributors that we could make them BSD if we wanted to. Or PHP 
> License, or...
> 

I have no problems with switching Chora to the modified BSD
license.  Changing Horde would be great, as well.

Anil