Re: PHPNuke license
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:19:34AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:44:56AM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
> > Could the maintainer of PHP-Nuke please have a little chat with
> > the author?
>
> I think that the author is unlikely to relent on this, given
> http://www.phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5536
Well, the full context of that sentence is below.
> > This, of course, means that people who run PHP-Nuke must have
> > their webpages licensed as a whole under the GNU GPL. It also implies
> > that they need to reproduce the copyright notices in the output, perhaps
> > as HTML comments up at the top. This all seems rather silly though,
> > since the author has obviously not understood the license he has
> > applied.
> >
> > Could the maintainer of PHP-Nuke please have a little chat with
> > the author?
What I really mean here is for the maintainer to ask the
PHP-Nuke author to actually relicense their software such that their
intentions are expressed in the license. Since it is fairly obvious
that he is not using the GNU GPL correctly, he probably wants to use
something else.
Of course, if he has accepted patches from people licensed under
the GNU GPL, then he's in a deeper uh... legal quagmire.
Simon
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