Le 25/01/2013 14:39, Servilio Afre Puentes a écrit :
> Jean-Michel FRANCOIS <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question regarding licensing of Plone addons.
>>
>> Context: The CMS Plone 4 is GPL v2 and is build upon Zope.
>> Zope is under ZPL license which is BSD-like
>> but it also adds clauses prohibiting trademark use and requiring
>> documentation of all changes.
>> Some core libraries of Plone are distributed under BSD license.
>>
>> I know I can't use GPLv3 for Plone addons (ie. Cyn.in can't be updated to
>> use Plone4)
> Are you sure this is the reason it can't be updated? Both Plone 3[1] and 4[2]
> use GPLv2.

GPLv2 and GPLv3 are not compatible.

>> Now the questions:
>>
>>    - Is there any default licensing for Plone addons?
> I don't think so, have you checked the site[3]?
Check this book and this compatibility table:
http://www.framabook.org/docs/optionlibre/OptionlibreDubonusagedeslicenceslibres/chapitre-71-fr.html

>
>>    - If I want to create a product a là Cyn.in do I need to publish
>>    this project as GPLv2?
> As per the GNU compatibility matrix[4], you could also use GPLv2 or
> later.

Not exactly, the matrix is cheating on this point :
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#compat-matrix-footnote-3


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