So my take on this is the following: 1) limit GPL-licensed plug-ins to minimal API calls (over http); 2) move any complex logic to our side (to Openmeetings services, or standalone services which do more elaborate calls to Openmeetings).
We are pretty close to this anyway. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:17 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > The general "echo" is rather negative. > > For example Sam Ruby's answer a time ago was: > *The operative phrase here being "the terms of the GPL must be followed > when those plug-ins are distributed." This really sounds more like > something that would be made available at Apache Extras:* > Quoted from: http://markmail.org/message/33hztgfyfxdb3jef > > Other follow up that, for example Jukka Zitting did say: > *I agree with that argument against the viral nature of GPL, but in general > the ASF has tended to honor the wishes of upstream copyright owners also > beyond the requirements of copyright law.* > Quoted from: http://markmail.org/message/je5hzdocsloofidd > > So if the Vice President of Legal Affairs of the Apache Foundation and the > chair of the Apache Incubator thinks that it would be rather better to > release those plugins outside of the ASF I think chances to release them > inside require very good arguments and lot of time. > > I agree to your position that it _should_ be possible to release under the > Apache License, but I think we should not make the graduation of our > project depending on the legal status of the plugins. > If the final decision is that its okay to release them under the Apache > License => Great! We can still move them to Apache at any time. > > After all this looks like some kind of blocker that keeps us away from > moving forward. apache-extras.org might be a good way to resolve this and > keep concentrating on enhancing our core product. > > Sebastian > > 2012/10/11 Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]> > > > I always thought that since our code contains zero lines of code under > > incompatible license we are free to release it under ASF. I do remember > > this was confirmed by last email from legal team > > On Oct 11, 2012 9:24 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > before we try to organize a Vote for graduation it might makes sense to > > > clean up plugins from the SVN that have unclear legal status. > > > > > > I started to move Moodle to apache-extras.org and Drupal. Cause the > > > discussion already has gone quite far that it is not acceptable to > > > distribute them at the ASF. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > -- > > > Sebastian Wagner > > > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > > > http://www.webbase-design.de > > > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > [email protected] >
