Plenty of Wordpress themes and plugins are closed source. I suppose that answers the law question.
From the pure "should we or not" side, I wouldn't say we should restrict proprietary apps from the ownCloud appstore, paid or not. Clearly indicate that they are not open source, yes. Bjt not flat-out restrict it. On Apr 25, 2014 2:15 PM, Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 25.04.2014, at 08:01, Jan ten Bokkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Bjoern Schiessle schreef op 25-4-2014 13:42: > >> actually it is not possible to distribute proprietary apps. ownCloud is > >> licensed under AGPLv3 and every app can be seen as a derivative work and > >> therefore needs to be licensed under a AGPLv3 compatible license. > > > > As far as I know that's only true for a shared code base, ownCloud can be > > seen as a framework for cloud apps and provides an apps API to establish > > that. The derivative work rule only applies if modifications are made to > > the framework itself. There are plenty examples of commercial, closed > > source software utilizing opensource frameworks. > > That´s true in general. > The challenge is how this is interpreted by experts, lawyers and courts. > > A common interpretation is that it is the same "application" if it is running > in the same address space like a linked C library. Or if it is not running in > the same address space like a linux application on top of the kernel. > > The big challenge is how this translates to scripting languages like PHP > where everything is always running in the same address space of the PHP > runtime. > But Java has the same challenge where a proprietary Android app is running in > the same VM as a GPL component. > > Does someone know how the legal argumentation works there? > > > Frank > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > Jan ten Bokkel > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
