Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki license question

On 05/08/2011 11:11 AM, lists(a)yhmail.de wrote: The platform (the java classes, the velocity templates, the javascript and CSS files, and everything that comes in the .war archive) is under the LGPL license. This means that every change you make to the platform code must also be distributed under LGPL. Normally, you don't need to change the platform code, which means that your part of the license agreement is fulfilled if you inform somehow the user of the license, and provide a link to the default sources. External programs that talk to the wiki through other means don't have to be LGPL, they can have whatever license you wish. The wiki documents (what you get in the default .xar archive) is distributed under Creative Commons (CC-BY), which is a better suited license for content. If you keep the default content, you must at least credit XWiki. You are free to change the content as you wish, and any new content you provide can have any other license you choose. Since the license is only CC-BY and not CC-BY-SA, you can also change the license of the default wiki content if you chance the content in any way.

> I am asking because we have a customer who sells intranet SaaS > solutions for small and middle sized companies. The question is: would > it be OK if he integrates XWiki into his solutions. He does not want > to use functions provided by xwiki in his code/programm and he > wouldn?t charge extra for it. However he would alter the authorisation > process and change the style. > > Thanks very much for your help,