I am not a coder nor am I a lawyer, but what if someone put his invention of editing methods (the script/extension, bound to scribus) under a restrictive license AND the scribus team decides (by chance) that this function would be useful to be implemented into scribus? Will this be a problem of copyright infringement? Do they HAVE to pay for the idea?
> If someone wants to modify the code of Scripter, then, yes, that would > be a > derivative work and fall under the GPL. It does all come down to the > fact > about distribution. If someone writes an inhouse modification, ie not > for > redistribution, they are not forced to release the code. > > If you want to write a bunch of scripts and have a different licence > and > package them together, I dont see a problem with them being a different > licence to Scribus. They may only work with Scribus, however their > existence > does not modify the existence of Scribus or its code, or the rights to > that > code. > > Craig
