Glen, I agree with everything you wrote. And, I think a contributed plugin should clearly state what license it is under, be it commercial, public domain or OS. And the more Apache the license, the better ;-) Therefore I suggested to recommend the contributers to use the Apache license.
As plugins whose code is attached to ContributedPlugins, can they be under whatever license or should they be Apache licensed? I wonder if they become Apache code if beeing attached to an Apache hosted wiki? Greetings, Juergen Am 08.07.2014 16:15 schrieb "Glen Mazza" <[email protected]>: > The Apache license does not require contributed plugins to be ASL or even > open source, they can be whatever license, we don't care, that's the beauty > of the ASL license. (You may have been thinking about (L)GPL.) Should we > restrict that page to only non-commercial products? I don't see a need. > If a company offers for-purchase plugins for JSPWiki, I wouldn't mind a > minor blurb on that page linking them back to the company offering it. We > have precedence with several other Apache projects, which have a > "commercial offerings" page in which companies offering services can get > listed, e.g., : http://cxf.apache.org/commercial-cxf-offerings.html. > > Regards, > Glen > > On 07/08/2014 10:06 AM, Jürgen Weber wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ContributedPlugins >> >> says nothing about the license of contributed plugins. >> >> Shouldn't we add a notice to the page that plugin contributors should put >> their plugins under Apache license or another Open Source license? >> >> I think code contributed to an Apache site / wiki should be good with >> regard to licensing. >> >> I guess most contributors won't think about license issues, but with a >> recommendation would add the Apache license? >> >> Greetings, Juergen >> >> >
