[Mageia-webteam] Forum installation (almost) complete

Wed Feb 23 18:42:44 CET 2011

Le 23/02/2011 13:56, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> Le 23 févr. 2011 à 13:12, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> a écrit :
+>> phpbb-seo modifie the code of phpbb directly for integration.
+>>
+>> See the git snapshot ( git://git.mageia.org/forum/ using a git client,
+>> and grep -r -i seo ). So the question is "what is the license of the
+>> resulting file, as it mix 2 incompatibles licenses". I am pretty sure
+>> that the GPL forbid such mix ( as this is the reason of the creation of
+>> LGPL ).
+> Unless we don't redistribute it. But the RPL seems to require redistribution of the code?
+>
+Asked to phpbb guys... as GPL is viral and as phpbb-seo works only with phpbb and relies on it the mod should probably have been licensed under GPL V2 (TANL & IANAL)
+
+(I guess FSF would be rather upsed with licensing issues like this one)
+
+
+>> 2 questions :
+>> 1) who is volunteer to contact upstream ?
+> I pay him/her a beer!
+>
+Mail sent...
+
+...You owe me a beer :o)
+
+...but i don't have the answer yet :-/
+
+
+>> 2) what do we do in the meantime ?
+> Keep the patch separate and deploy without seo? Or is it too complex?
+>
+>
+> Romain
+
+With and without seo the forums urls would be very different.
+
+If we start without it (which is possible with a little bit of cleaning on code and database) we loose nice looking urls and easy google indexing (and hence people finding easily our pages)...
+
+Stay tuned,
+
+Maât
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