OpenMeetings itself has no link to Moodle only the plugin makes that link. The plugin integrates into Moodle, I don't know what restrictions that will put on the plugin itself. I would rather prefer releasing it under Apache License to have a single project website for everything instead of multiple. However if there are legal reasons to release it only under GPL or LGPL we will maintain it somewhere else.
Sebastian 2012/2/6 Rene' Rosenbaum <[email protected]> > On Monday, February 06, 2012 8:31:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Rene, >> >> That is right, we will need to discuss what license those plugins will be. >> For other Apache license questions I think you may find some more >> educated answers on the asf website, for example the faq section of the >> legal sites already covers a lot of questions. >> >> Sebastian >> >> Am 06.02.2012 14:18 schrieb "Rene' Rosenbaum" < >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]**>>: >> >> >> Hi all, >> we plan to use OpenMeetings in a commercial setting. As we highly >> respect and consider copyright ownership in our work, we got a >> couple of questions to its license. May be there is someone out >> there who already got the answers: >> >> We plan to use OpenMeetings as part of our Moodle system using the >> OpenMeetings Moodle plugIn. >> 1. Why is it that OpenMeetings is under Apache License although >> Moodles is GPL3? Isn't that a violation of GPL3 requiring all >> code that extends the current state of work (Moodle) by some >> additional functionality (OpenMeetings)? >> >> In our intended commercial setup we plan to use OpenMeetings in >> object code. We initially need to cover most of our new ideas from >> our competitors. While GPL3 prevents this completely, Apache >> allows us to do so. Copyrights etc., however, must (of course) be >> made available. >> 2. What is the common way to show the ownership of Apache-licensed >> software (in object code, e.g., in a running software). >> >> That's it for now! >> A great week to all of you, >> Rene' >> >> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Dr.-Ing. Rene' Rosenbaum >> Research Associate >> Institute for Computer Science >> University of Rostock >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +++ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> > Hi Sebastian, > I actually thought there was a reason behind the Apache license for the > OpenMettings core system and the GPL for the plugIn. As the plugIn is an > extension of the GPL-based Moodle it has to be GPL, too (in my > understanding). However, the core system is pretty much independent from > the whole Moodle system so that it may have its own license (in my > understanding). What are your thoughts on this? I guess, you also spend > some time thinking about a proper license for OpenMeetings and the plugIn, > right? > Thanks for the link to the asf website! Will check that out ... > Cheers, > > Rene' > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dr.-Ing. Rene' Rosenbaum > Research Associate > Institute for Computer Science > University of Rostock > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +++ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -- Sebastian Wagner http://www.openmeetings.de http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/ http://www.webbase-design.de http://www.wagner-sebastian.com [email protected]
