On Monday, February 06, 2012 8:31:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Rene,
That is right, we will need to discuss what license those plugins will be.
For other Apache license questions I think you may find some more
educated answers on the asf website, for example the faq section of
the legal sites already covers a lot of questions.
Sebastian
Am 06.02.2012 14:18 schrieb "Rene' Rosenbaum"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
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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Institute for Computer Science
University of Rostock
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Hi Sebastian,
I actually thought there was a reason behind the Apache license for the
OpenMettings core system and the GPL for the plugIn. As the plugIn is
an extension of the GPL-based Moodle it has to be GPL, too (in my
understanding). However, the core system is pretty much independent
from the whole Moodle system so that it may have its own license (in my
understanding). What are your thoughts on this? I guess, you also spend
some time thinking about a proper license for OpenMeetings and the
plugIn, right?
Thanks for the link to the asf website! Will check that out ...
Cheers,
Rene'
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Dr.-Ing. Rene' Rosenbaum
Research Associate
Institute for Computer Science
University of Rostock
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