LibLime
| Private | |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Maryland, USA |
| Products | LibLime KOHA LibLime Enterprise KOHA ‡biblios.net |
| Website | http://liblime.com/ / http://www.ptfs.com/ |
LibLime is a commercial entity providing implementation and development services around the open source Integrated library system Koha. LibLime was founded in 2005, as part of Metavore Inc. and purchased by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) in 2010.
LibLime was founded in 2005 by Joshua Ferraro, a systems administrator who helped spearhead the migration project of moving the Athens County Public Libraries in Ohio to OpenSource Koha, a system generally considered to be the earliest open source ILS still in production. LibLime and Ferraro soon became involved in further developing the product, and Ferraro was elected as the official Koha Project Release Manager for version 3.0.0.
In 2006, LibLime acquired the assets of Skemotah Solutions, another US-based Koha support company.
In March 2007, LibLime acquired the Koha division of Katipo Communications Ltd - the original developers of Koha. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts with libraries that contracted with Katipo, copyrights on the original Koha source code, and the koha.org domain and Website.
Koha 3.0.0 was released in August 2008 three years after the release of version 2.2.0 (Jan 6 2005).
In July 2008, LibLime acquired select assets of partner CARE Affiliates, Inc. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts for OpenTranslators and Masterkey, as well as copyrights and trademarks related to OpenTranslators.
In January 2009, the company launched ‡biblios.net, a free cataloging service.
In 2009 a dispute arose between LibLime and other members of the Koha community. The dispute centred on LibLime's apparent reluctance to be inclusive with the content of the http://koha.org/ sites and the non-contribution of software patches back to the community. A number of participants declared that they believed that LibLime had forked the software. A separate web presence, source code repository and community was established at http://www.koha-community.org/ .
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