Vincent Massol wrote: > 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 >
The core must be kept under LGPL. Extensions/plugins can have any licence compatible with LGPL. Sergiu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
