On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Aaron Coburn wrote: > Thanks, Aahit, > This confirms what I have read, namely that any Moodle plugin must be > licensed under the GPL. > > IANAL, but it is pretty clear that the plugin depends entirely on the Moodle > infrastructure, runs inside of the Moodle system and uses the Moodle address > space -- it is, in effect, "linked" to Moodle and thus generally understood > to be a "derivative work". > > As I understand it, this does not affect the licensing of the VCL, since the > Moodle plugin and the VCL system only transfer data. > > The secondary question is whether the VCL project can properly distribute GPL > code. Clearly, this cannot be part of any VCL release. But can the VCL > project distribute the plugin from its website, or should I make this > available from some independent location?
From http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x , the answer is pretty clearly no. This seems like a good candidate for Apache Extras -- http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/faq.html --kevan
