SQL-Ledger license change [LWN.net]

SQL-Ledger license change

Posted Apr 17, 2007 18:24 UTC (Tue) by agittins (guest, #44713)
Parent article: SQL-Ledger license change

What Ballombe said, but additionally... The maintainer changed the
license silently, and actively censored the mailing lists preventing
anyone from revealing the change to the community. There were also
contributed translation files still licensed under the GPL in the new
relicensed release, for which permission to relicense had not been
granted (or sought).

I wrote the article that got the /. submission, there is more to the
story than that which is revealed on the SQL-Ledger website.
My article is here:

http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au/sql-ledger-license-chang...

Essentially the new license appeared to be an attempt to prevent future
forks like http://www.LedgerSMB.org/

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SQL-Ledger license change

Posted Apr 17, 2007 18:27 UTC (Tue) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link]

I would only add that since the license was not GPL-compatable, and since the translations were still under the GPL, I think it *did* take away anyone's right including that of DWS to distribute the software. Dieter was factually incorrect on that point.