12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
9:09 p.m.
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:57 PM, ahj(a)quantumleap.us wrote:
Hi, xwikiites.
I was wondering how you regard plugins that extend the capabilities
of xwiki with resepct to LGPL license.
Do you consider plugins to be derivative works? (I am assuming
that they are not already derivative in tthe sense of being
constructed on top of an existing LGPLed code base)
For instance (purely hypothetical):
Commercial developer "D" develops a type-ahead plugin that fills in
names of people in his office. The system is so successful, that
he plans to market "TAXWiki" - based on the xwiki codebase, but
with the added feature of corporate-aware type-ahead.
Would the LGPL require that D contribute the source code to his
type-ahead plugin back to the xwiki codebase?
IMO, no. Same for Applications (i.e. set of XWiki pages).
As Catalin mentioned anything that modifies the current XWiki code
base would have to go back in the community though.
Now what would be nice of course would be that such "D" developer/
company contributes back to the XWiki open source project in some
manner (code contributions, support on the mailing list, donations,
documentation improvements, etc) :-)
Thanks
-Vincent