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[[LedgerSMB]] is a fork of SQLLedger:

- [[!wikipedia SQL-Ledger#Licensing_Issues]]
- [[!wikipedia LedgerSMB#Forking_controversy]]

Links:

- [[!wikipedia SQL-Ledger]] - Wikipedia
- <http://www.sql-ledger.com/> - Project homepage
- <https://github.com/Tekki/sql-ledger> - Source code

## Technical

- Perl
- SQL DB (Postgres mentioned on project homepage)
- Web-based
- GPL

## Preliminary evaluation

### Positive

- i18n

### Negative

- Unclear directory structure
- Seemingly no API documentation
- Documentation not open source

### Comments

Josh Berkus:  I was an early (uncredited) contributor to SQL-Ledger, and part of the fork.  The reasons we created the fork:
- Many known security holes (reference early LedgerSMB releases, which fix these.  They are still not fixed in current SQLLedger)
- Primary developer hostile to outside contributions, and did not credit the contributions he did receive.  Also relicensed contributions without permission.  I know, because some of the contributions were mine.
- Basically the primitive ancestor of LedgerSMB
2013-10-29 21:31:14 +00:00			`[[LedgerSMB]] is a fork of SQLLedger:`

			`- [[!wikipedia SQL-Ledger#Licensing_Issues]]`
			`- [[!wikipedia LedgerSMB#Forking_controversy]]`

Initial SQL-ledger 2013-10-28 22:19:51 +00:00			`Links:`

			`- [[!wikipedia SQL-Ledger]] - Wikipedia`
			`- <http://www.sql-ledger.com/> - Project homepage`
			`- <https://github.com/Tekki/sql-ledger> - Source code`

			`## Technical`

			`- Perl`
			`- SQL DB (Postgres mentioned on project homepage)`
			`- Web-based`
			`- GPL`

			`## Preliminary evaluation`

			`### Positive`

			`- i18n`

			`### Negative`

			`- Unclear directory structure`
			`- Seemingly no API documentation`
2013-10-31 17:01:54 +00:00			`- Documentation not open source`
2013-10-31 17:06:29 +00:00
			`### Comments`

			`Josh Berkus: I was an early (uncredited) contributor to SQL-Ledger, and part of the fork. The reasons we created the fork:`
			`- Many known security holes (reference early LedgerSMB releases, which fix these. They are still not fixed in current SQLLedger)`
			`- Primary developer hostile to outside contributions, and did not credit the contributions he did receive. Also relicensed contributions without permission. I know, because some of the contributions were mine.`
2013-10-31 17:01:54 +00:00			`- Basically the primitive ancestor of LedgerSMB`