[Bug 225575] Review Request: roundcubemail - Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client

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Summary: Review Request: roundcubemail - Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225575





------- Additional Comments From limb at jcomserv.net  2007-01-31 13:37 EST -------
Response from upstream:
2007/1/31, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net>:
>
> During the review process, we hit a snag.  Portions of the code
> distributed with Roundcube are Licensed under the PHP 3.0 and PHP 2.02
> licenses, which are GPL-incompatible.

Hmm, which parts are not GPL? I wasn't aware of that.

> Please let me know what action you intend to take, if any.

Could we just describe those files/packages as a dependency instead of
including them with the package? Please sorry for this stupid question
but license stuff always confuses me.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jon Ciesla
>
Regards,
Thomas

My reply:
The parts from PEAR, namely DB, Auth, Net and Mail.  You need to let the end
user install them on their own, since they're readily available and
GPL-incompatible.  This won't be an issue for Fedora, as they're all available
as Extras packages which Roundcube can require as dependencies. 

Also, where are the .map files in program/lib/encoding from?  How are they
licensed?  There's a contact address in them from microsoft, which in the
absence of concrete licensing information in the utf8.class.php file makes it
likely that it can't be redistributed with GPL code.

Taking care of the PEAR parts shouldn't be a problem, but the utf stuff probably
should go and be replaced with something using this:

http://us2.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=utf&lang=en

I hope this is helpful.

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We'll see where it goes.

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