[PHP] licenses, etc From: Alex Black (enigma <email protected>)
Date: 12/17/00

hi all,

andi gutmans has brought up a good point, along the lines of some thinking I
have been doing re: licensing.

binarycloud is composed 80% of "new" code, which I have initially put up
under the GPL. there is also some code included in the distribution that we
did not write, under those circumstances we identify it as such in the
header, and include whatever was included with the script.

so..

this presents a problem.

here is a response to andi, which covers it:
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there are a few separate issues:

    -I want any modifications/improvements people make to the core code
(libs, base components like permissions) to be contributed back.

    -I want all significant changes to opensource _modules_ (think of them
like little page-building applications) to be contributed back.

    -Anyone who builds modules that use the binarycloud infrastructure, so
long as they build the module from scratch, i.e. a checkout module for a
specific site, should be able to keep that code proprietary.

I'm running a commercial installation on binarycloud right now. It hasn't
gone live yet, but it's on the production servers and will go up in january.
Obviously a good deal of that code is proprietary, and is in fact someone
else's intellectual property.

So you see my problem, kind of the split personality thing.
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In some cases the lgpl is relevant, in other the GPL is more relevant...

I'm thinking of writing a specific license for systems of this complexity,
kind of the "framework" license.

What do people think of that?

Given those three "constraints" - does anyone know of an existing license
that is applicable, or should I get one written?

_a 

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