Hi all,
we plan to use OpenMeetings in a commercial setting. As we highly
respect and consider copyright ownership in our work, we got a couple of
questions to its license. May be there is someone out there who already
got the answers:
We plan to use OpenMeetings as part of our Moodle system using the
OpenMeetings Moodle plugIn.
1. Why is it that OpenMeetings is under Apache License although Moodles
is GPL3? Isn't that a violation of GPL3 requiring all code that extends
the current state of work (Moodle) by some additional functionality
(OpenMeetings)?
In our intended commercial setup we plan to use OpenMeetings in object
code. We initially need to cover most of our new ideas from our
competitors. While GPL3 prevents this completely, Apache allows us to do
so. Copyrights etc., however, must (of course) be made available.
2. What is the common way to show the ownership of Apache-licensed
software (in object code, e.g., in a running software).
That's it for now!
A great week to all of you,
Rene'
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Dr.-Ing. Rene' Rosenbaum
Research Associate
Institute for Computer Science
University of Rostock
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