2007/1/18, avox <avox at arcor.de>: > Thomas R. Koll wrote: > >> Hi! > >> As far as I understand Scribus is licensed under the GPL. With the > >> Python plugin I can write scripts and extensions which directly call > >> the Scribus core and gui. Do these files automatically fall under the > >> GPL or can I choose another license? > >> Perhaps some clarification is needed. > > Absolutely not. The author of the script has all rights of his > > script and this cannot be changed by any relating software > > and its license. > True. You just loose all rights to use Scribus if you distribute those > scripts > under a non-GPL licence... ;-) Other projects seem to handle this differently. See http://www.blender.org/cms/GPL_for_artists.495.0.html#2129 for an example. But I cannot fully follow their arguments...
> Seriously, I don't know what the exact position of the Scribus team > is on this point. Maybe we should clarify that in the future. > For myself I wouldn't like it if someone distributed Scribus together with > non OSS scripts, but I can (probably have to) live with someone distributing > the scripts independently of Scribus. > Let's see what the others think. Non GPL != Non OSS. There is alos Creative Commons, BSD, public domain, ...
