[Web4lib] Koha

[Cary Gordon]

All of this leads me to wonder if the folks at PTFS have really read
the GNU v2 license.

As a board member of a major FLOSS project licensed under GNU v2, I
have, and my understanding is that anything released that references
or contains project code can be modified and exploited commercially so
long as the source code is included in the distribution. Once that
code has been delivered, it is also subject to the terms of the
license and the seller may not restrict the purchaser from
distributing it (for free, or course).

Cary

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd also be interested to know if anybody knows how difficult it would
>> be to migrate off of LEK onto either a locally hosted Koha instance or
>> another vendor hosted implementation.  If it is especially difficult,
>> then, yes, Thomas, your calls for buyer beware would be highly
>> justified.
>>
>
> I personally haven't done one of these (yet) but what I know is that
> the database structure has been reworked in LEK and so tables that are
> standard in Koha are different in LEK (and there are new tables as
> well), so probably not super easy to make the migration, but not
> completely impossible because the database is still MySQL - certainly
> not as hard as going from a proprietary system to Koha in the first
> place - I would guess.
>
> Thanks
> Nicole C. Engard
>
>
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