Bonjour
Comme promis j ai contacté
la team d ipfire et voila leur reponse :
Maniacikarus :
Well most of the people speaking there are not really knowing that the sources of the IPCop are mostly smoothwall based and the only parts we´re using that are some kind ipcop`like is the webinterface, but we´re not just only copying their things. We´ve had several discussion with some ipcop people years before and we think that the way we doing this is gpl like. I think that our credits page really fits the gpl needs, or did you see any ipcop developer thanking the gcc, lfs, squid or other developers (and many more) or stating which parts are taken form others? In some parts we´re leaving comments from where we´re inspired but the pages look very differnent from other http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git ... 77;hb=HEAD
I´ve read the discussions on ixxus and i´am looking at this, but none of them contaced us and told us just put a remark there and everything is fine, it think they are kinda caught in the discussion about the impudence of forking it. Just allways stating that we´re not gpl like.
Stating
"IPFire is based on IPCop and Smoothwall. Many thanks to its developers.
and
Some parts of the distribution are left ajar on third-party software, that is licensed under the GPL, too.
There are: Advanced Proxy with URL-Filter and Update-Accelerator, ZERINA, Connection Scheduler, Hddtemp and Wake-on-LAN.
Distributed by Marco Sondermann, Ufuk Altinkaynak, Thomas Eichstaedt and Olaf Westrik."
isn´t this enough to fit the gpl? Even the whole sourcecode and sources are available from our site. The names are visible not only some comment lines in the code that people will never see.