On 14 May 2011 17:34, Tudor Holton <[email protected]> wrote: > > The simple answer is you can't with AGPL
Widgets are code blocks. AGPL covers code. Thus widgets must be AGPL if they contain code. > Even extensions are classed as a separate project Why are they classed separately? > you could have an entirely AGPL project and proprietary extensions, for > example. When extensions call a GPL API, they must be GPL too. There are proprietary extensions to the Linux kernel because the copyright holders do not enforce the GPL. > What you CAN do however, is do what Mediawiki does and make suggestions > as to the license of the implementation/content on the site during > setup, usually with a default that's the same as the project. The non-code part of the site is not under AGPL. Such suggesions are fine, but would likely be for a CC-BY-SA license as Mike says and as Mediawiki does. > Also, thinking ahead about keeping maintainers and extension builders on > the team, If maintainers and extension builders are building proprietary extensions, I question to what extent they are 'on the team'... ;-) > and particularly keeping in mind that everyone has to make a > living somehow is always a good strategy to have. One can earn a living with published libre software. > Some people will be > drawn to the project to make money from it and we have to handle that > somehow and keep them with us. Look at WordPress and WordPress paid > sites as a good example of this strategy as a success. I agree WordPress is worth looking at, because WP actively enforces its GPL again proprietary extension developers. -- Cheers Dave -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Aiki Framework Admins, which is subscribed to aikiframework. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782399 Title: Aiki sites should be Affero compliant out of the box Status in Aiki Framework: New Bug description: Currently Aiki sites must make their code available by hand to comply with the license. I bet that most Aiki sites are out of compliance with the license. This is a SERIOUS problem. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aikiframework.admins Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aikiframework.admins More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
