On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: > Vincent Massol wrote: >> On Jan 4, 2008, at 1:08 AM, justanotheradress wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I'm totally confused. :-( >>> >>> If I use XWIKI, which is published under LGPL, am I allowed to >>> write a >>> module/plugin and not publish it or do I have to publish it under >>> LGPL too? >>> >> >> AFAIK, yes you can write extensions and not publish them under an >> open >> source license. >> >> If you make any modification to the current code though you'll have >> to >> share it with the community under the LGPL license. >> >> At least this is my understanding (I'm not a license expert). >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> > > Hi, > > Following this thread and looking for some more insight. Considering > that we are trying to get support to develop XWiki extensions and > share > them with the community, under what license must we release these > supposed, so far, extensions? > > A simple example: a company/public body contract a work with our > group. > We would like to solve the ICT part of the problem with a solution > based > on XWiki. But we want to tell the client that any extension > constructed > over XWiki must be shared with the community. What license must we > propose to the client to accept?
I don't know the answer but my feeling is that extensions can be released under the license you want. This needs to be checked of course. Anyone knows? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
