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.[1] 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 use OpenSource software called "Koha", a system generally considered to be the earliest open-source ILS[2] still in production.
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.
[13][14] The dispute with the Koha community deepened in November 2011 when it was reported that LibLime had applied to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development for a trademark of the name 'KOHA'.
Through the integrated Zebra software (from Index Data, a Danish company[21]), Koha provides advanced search options: full support for Boolean and hierarchically-nested queries; searching by language, year, and library-defined types; sub-type limits based on audience, content, and format which utilize coded values in the MARC record.