[Owncloud] owncloud is AGPL licensed but contains numerous instances of PHP license

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi Andrej,

thats great! I look forward to see ownCloud in openSUSE. :-)

ownCloud is AGPL. But we also ship other libraries in our tar file because it makes installation easier for our users. Everything is free software of course.
I hope it´s not a problem for you that we have a mixture of licenses here.

Cheers
Frank



On 20.09.2011, at 14:26, asemen at novell.com wrote:

> Hi as I am trying to add the owncloud package to openSUSE Factory did
> run into some AGPL vs. PHP GPL-3.0 license problems.
> 
> Could you help me on this?
> 
> Please tell me under which license owncloud could should be published.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Andrej Semen
> 
> 
> see also bug report
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719155
> 
> 
> paste from from bug report comment #0
> 
> The AGPL-3.0 and the GPL-3.0 are compatible but the AGPL-3.0 and the
> GPL-2.0(+)
> are not, meaning that for the purposes of opencloud, we need to treat all
> instances of GPL-2.0+ as GPL-3.0 code. Then, the compatibility issue
> does not
> arise.
> 
> However, the PHP-3.0.1 license is compatible with neither the AGPL-3.0
> nor with
> the GPL-3.0. This is (according to the FSF:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PHP-3.01) because of the
> limitations that the PHP license puts on the use of the name "PHP" in
> derived
> products.
> 
> At least the following files in owncloud (there are repetitions in file
> names
> here, I haven't looked to see if the files contain the same code) are
> licensed
> under the PHP 3.0 license. As such, according to the FSF these files are
> incompatible with the (GPL|AGPL)-3.0 licensed files in owncloud.
> 
> I suggest checking to see if and how such PHP licensed files are used (if at
> all). If they are used and are "mission critical" we should definitely ask
> upstream if they are aware of the issue and intend to address it.
> 
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Autoloader.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Build.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Common.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Config.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Config.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Packager.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/PEAR/Remote.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/System.php
> owncloud._/3rdparty/XML/Parser.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Autoloader.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Build.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Common.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Config.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Config.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Packager.php
> owncloud/inc/PEAR/Remote.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/Assert.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/Gtk.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/HTML.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/GUI/SetupDecorator.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/RepeatedTest.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/Skeleton.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestCase.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestDecorator.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestFailure.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestListener.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestResult.php
> owncloud/inc/PHPUnit/TestSuite.php
> owncloud/inc/packages/DB.xml
> owncloud/inc/packages/Log.xml
> owncloud/inc/packages/Mail.xml
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Autoloader.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Auth.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Build.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Common.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Config.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Mirror.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Registry.php
> owncloud/owncloud/3rdparty/PEAR/Command/Remote.php
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Frank Karlitschek
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