On Thursday 18. January 2007. 17:24, avox wrote: > Thomas R. Koll wrote: > > Hi Henning, > > > > Am 18.01.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Henning Schr?der: > >> Hi! > >> As far as I understand Scribus is licensed under the GPL. With the > >> Python plugin I can write scripts and extensions which directly call > >> the Scribus core and gui. Do these files automatically fall under the > >> GPL or can I choose another license? > >> Perhaps some clarification is needed. > > > > Absolutely not. The author of the script has all rights of his > > script and this cannot be changed by any relating software > > and its license. > > True. You just loose all rights to use Scribus if you distribute those > scripts > under a non-GPL licence... ;-) > > Seriously, I don't know what the exact position of the Scribus team > is on this point. Maybe we should clarify that in the future. > For myself I wouldn't like it if someone distributed Scribus together with > non OSS scripts, but I can (probably have to) live with someone > distributing the scripts independently of Scribus. > Let's see what the others think. > > /Andreas
It would indeed be ideal if we could have all scripts GPD'd. But I think it is absolutely not cool to restrict the use of other (even non-free) licenses. Just gives you that much more flexibility. Plus, Andreas, you are talking about open-sourcing scripts when large companies are saving no less than Euro 800 million on R&D in Europe alone thanks to FLOSS. Best regards, Branko
