[xwiki-devs] License question

[Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 1:08 AM, justanotheradress wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm totally confused. :-(
>>
>> If I use XWIKI, which is published under LGPL, am I allowed to write a
>> module/plugin and not publish it or do I have to publish it under  
>> LGPL too?
>>     
>
> AFAIK, yes you can write extensions and not publish them under an open  
> source license.
>
> If you make any modification to the current code though you'll have to  
> share it with the community under the LGPL license.
>
> At least this is my understanding (I'm not a license expert).
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>   

Hi,

Following this thread and looking for some more insight. Considering 
that we are trying to get support to develop XWiki extensions and share 
them with the community, under what license must we release these 
supposed, so far, extensions?

A simple example: a company/public body contract a work with our group. 
We would like to solve the ICT part of the problem with a solution based 
on XWiki. But we want to tell the client that any extension constructed 
over XWiki must be shared with the community. What license must we 
propose to the client to accept?

Thanks!

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team