First and foremost I'm no legal advisor, so you will have to clear this with someone who is.
XWiki is released under a LGPL, so I believe you are allowed to write and license you own modules, script, etc. anyway you want to. But if you use adoptions of the existing code you have to release it under the same license, here the LGPG. How it actually works with configuration files, I don't know. Are they considered a part of the licensed code or not? I do believe you are allowed to set up your own version of XWiki and sell it (as in charging money), but you still have to include the original license and all the source code. Here are some easy to understand description of LGPL from Wikipedia >>> The LGPL places copyleft restrictions on the program itself but does not apply these restrictions to other software that merely links with the program. There are, however, certain other restrictions on this software. The LGPL is primarily used for software libraries, although it is also used by some stand-alone applications, most notably Mozilla and OpenOffice.org. Version 3 of the LGPL is constructed by applying a GPL linking exception to version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). <<< And >>> The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be linked to (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, and regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.[1] This non-(L)GPLed program can then be distributed under any chosen terms if it is not a derivative work. If it is a derivative work, then the terms must allow "modification for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications." Whether a work that uses an LGPL program is a derivative work or not is a legal issue. A standalone executable that dynamically links to a library is generally accepted as not being a derivative work. It would be considered a "work that uses the library" and paragraph 5 of the LGPL applies. <<< -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] På vegne af Bey Youcef Sendt: 8. september 2009 19:34 Til: XWiki Users Emne: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki copyright Thanks Sergiu, I means: add modules, create new templates, adaptation of existing scripts, add new tables in the database....for creating a functional environment that I may sell it. Is it possible with XWiki? Thanks in advance. y. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <ser...@xwiki.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 18:16, Bey Youcef<youcef....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible with XWiki to develop a commercial environments and sell > > them? > > Probably yes, what do you mean by "commercial environments"? > -- > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
