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" <rrosenb...@ucdavis.edu>: > 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' > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dr.-Ing. Rene' Rosenbaum > Research Associate > Institute for Computer Science > University of Rostock > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +++ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
