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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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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