CodeIgniter license
Hi,
I'm currently working on a web application, using CodeIgniter PHP framework.
My application will be licensed under ISC license, but CodeIgniter is under
supposedly "Apache/BSD-style open source" license [1]. As I intend to
package my application, I would really appreciate it if the legal team could
give me an official answer on the question is CodeIgniter license free
according to DFSG. There has been a similar discussion two years ago [2],
but no final conclusion has been reached.
Greetings and thanks,
Bojan Sudarević
[1] http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/license.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/10/msg00048.html
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