cand. inf. Alexander M. Turek schrieb:
Hi there,
Marc Delisle schrieb:
Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
companies (including hosting companies) that provide access to a modified phpMyAdmin installation (SaaS) or provide a pre-installed copy of a modified phpMyAdmin.
Ok. Well, I am part of this group of persons that believe that the modifications should be made public, according to the spirit of GPL.
I would agree with Marc and in the case that it would come to a vote among all the former and current devs of phpMyAdmin, mine would be: stick with GPL.
but GPL does not require making all code public!?
I don't know, how much AMT code is still in pma, though. :-)
AMT?
My point is that a modified pma should not be something people make money with.
yes, thats why AGPL
I see the problems, hosters might have with releasing their modifications under the GPL, if those affect for instance interfaces to their own software. An idea might be, to allow those private modifications for certain parts, let's say the auth system or the privileges page. That means, that those parts of the code would be put under the AGPL.
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but putting tis parts undr AGPL would require them to make it public, i am confused ...
But anyway, you still would have to ask the all devs of those parts, which means, you would have to study CVS and SVN logs, tracker items, ... I wouldn't want to do that, do you? ;-)
filtering out any commits with less then 5 subsequent lines changed or just moved code around - would reduce it heavily.
(changing code, fixing bugs, formating, cleaning up does not change copyright)