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Hi<br>
<br>
I do extensive work with SugarCRM - only on the Open Source version of
it.<br>
<br>
SugarCRM, from Release 5.0 is GPL 3. Previous releases were the Sugar
Public License (SPL) which was essentially GPL2 with attribution
clauses and was not recognised by OSI.<br>
<br>
There is a vendor of a SugarCRM fork, based on a GPL2/SPL licensed
version of SugarCRM who has heavily modified the application.<br>
<br>
This vendor takes advantage of services distribution omissions in GPL2
which allows IP in modified versions to be retained if the software is
distributed as a service.<br>
<br>
However, the vendor also distributes an "on-premise" or physical
version of the modified application. This on-premise version is covered
by a proprietary license that forbids distribution of any vendor
written code, but allows distribution of the original SugarCRM written
code.<br>
<br>
If I remember correctly from a seminar I attended a couple or ten years
ago .... if you modify and distribute GPL2 code, the whole code base is
covered by GPL2 ... the changes inherit the GPL2 license conditions.<br>
<br>
Can anyone educate me here?<br>
<br>
thanks in anticipation.<br>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style2">Greg
Soper</span><span class="style1"><br>
Managing Director<br>
SalesAgility.com Ltd.</span></p>
<p><span class="style2"><span class="style3">SugarCRM
Experts</span></span> </p>
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