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adam:
If its going to have Invisions license may I point out the may not part of the license;


--- Quote ---You may not:
permit other individuals to use the Software except under the terms listed above
reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the Software for distribution or usage outside your web site excluding those applications described above
use the Software in such as way as to condone or encourage terrorism, promote or provide pirated Software, or any other form of illegal or damaging activity
modify and/or remove any copyright notices or labels on the Software on each page (unless full license is purchase) and in the header of each script source file
distribute the Software <-------
distribute individual copies of files, libraries, or other programming material in the Software package
distribute or modify proprietary graphics, HTML, or CSS packaged with the Software for use in Software applications other than Invision Power Board or web sites without written permission from IPS
--- End quote ---

The part the <--- is pointing to makes it not open source.  So if SMF does use invisions license say bye bye to open source.

Jack.R.Abbit™:

--- Quote from: Jeff Lewis on August 25, 2003, 03:18:35 PM ---It may have a license similar to Invision.

--- End quote ---
Jeff said "it may have a license similar to Invision".... don't go misreadiing his statement and assume that it will be the same license.

jack:

--- Quote ---You may not:
reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the Software for distribution or usage outside your web site excluding those applications described above
use the Software in such as way as to condone or encourage terrorism, promote or provide pirated Software, or any other form of illegal or damaging activity
distribute the Software <-------
distribute individual copies of files, libraries, or other programming material in the Software package
distribute or modify proprietary graphics, HTML, or CSS packaged with the Software for use in Software applications other than Invision Power Board or web sites without written permission from IPS
--- End quote ---

I think that all the above (I've cut a few bits out) would probably disqualify it from being an Open Source license, not just the distribution clause. Of cource, I'm no expert in the matter, ask the OSI to be sure.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. As long as the ability for me to mod it and fix it (and distribute my mods & fixes) remains, that's what's important in this project. The dev team have allways been a reasonable bunch & I believe will still provide exceptions for individual projects where necessary (such as integration code to integrate with other applications).

David:
We all understand people want to take the code and modify it, use it for other things, etc.  We won't turn our backs on our users.

Wezz6400:
I haven't read the license miself but I do know invision is not free, it's simply a unlimited trial, ie. free untill the dev's decide otherwise. Are you considering of doing that also? ???

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