Thanks Guys. Just to be clear, we weren't planning on selling a plugin as thats not really our style, but I did notice a prominent Plone company now seems to be selling rather than freely distributing some very useful plugins, which is a shame.
--- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb: Multisite Performance Support P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/pretaweb | linkedin.com/in/djay75 On 31/07/2013, at 5:16 PM, Jean Jordaan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Dylan Jay <[email protected]> wrote: >> My understand was that you couldn't license a plone product with anything >> other than a GPL license due to the Plone GPL license. Does that prevent you >> from being to sell a plugin > > Selling a plugin is fine: "we encourage people who redistribute free software > to charge as much as they wish or can" > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > >> and not publish the plugin on pypi or plone.org? > > You only need to make the source code available to the buyer, though you are > allowed to distribute it more widely. The buyer in turn also has the freedom > to modify or distribute the software. Neither is obliged to distribute it; see > Google and others who use GPL software and never make the code available. > > """ > Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without > modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to anyone > anywhere. Being free to do these things means (among other things) that you do > not have to ask or pay for permission to do so. > > You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately > in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they exist. If you do > publish your changes, you should not be required to notify anyone in > particular, or in any particular way. > """ > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > IANAL ... > > -- > jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
