Oh, now I understand what you mean. Anything directly attached to our
Wiki, code or text, must be Apache licensed, however users can put a
link there to a third party site if they have proprietary or (L)GPL or
other licensed stuff. I just updated the page to clarify that, thanks
for bringing it to our attention.
Glen
On 07/08/2014 10:52 AM, Jürgen Weber wrote:
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
