On 25/04/14 14:27, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > Plenty of Wordpress themes and plugins are closed source. I suppose > that answers the law question.
On the other hand wordpress.org also says the plugins are bound to the GPL[1]. They also link to the Drupal FAQ[2] which also describes this in great detail. It is also interesting what FSF writes about plugins for GPL licensed software[3]. I would say that ownCloud belongs to the category where the plugins need to be GPL again: "If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed." This describes very much how ownCloud apps works. [1] https://wordpress.org/about/license/ [2] https://drupal.org/licensing/faq/#q7 [3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins cheers, Björn -- Björn Schießle <[email protected]> Software Engineer ownCloud Inc. Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way! ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
