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

[Klaas Freitag]

On Dienstag, 20. September 2011 14:36:26 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> 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.
The thing is that AGPL is not compatible with GPL2 and also not with GPL3 (?),
check http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html for details, I am also not an 
expert. But the report below has some details.

It is really important to get that sorted to have it included into Factory.

regards,

Klaas

> 
> 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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