12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
8:43 p.m.
Found one more relevant link:
http://www.jboss.com/opensource/lgpl/faq#bundle
So in an better world (that uses components, and well defined
interfaces) it is possible to have non-LGPL plugins to LGPL code.
Probably this will be the case with XWiki 2.0. This does not mean that
now it's not possible, just that it's might not so easy technically
and legally to do so.
Once again, just my 50 cents.
Catalin
On 3/12/07, Catalin Hritcu <catalin.hritcu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Apperson,
My advice is to read this:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
and the relevant entries here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
or consult a copyright lawyer.
IANAL, but to me this might very well be a border case, so it depends
very much how your plugin interfaces with XWiki. With the current
plugin architecture you will quite likely have to modify XWiki in
order to interface with it, so at least this interface code will have
to be LGPL. In the near future it is very likely that plugins will be
a completely separate components using XWiki services, but this is
unfortunately not the case at this time.
Catalin
On 3/12/07, ahj(a)quantumleap.us <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?
Thanks very much,
-apperson
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