On May 8, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 05/08/2011 11:11 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hello again, >> I am unsure about the license xwiki uses. When I have a look at my >> xwiki installation it reads: ?This wiki is licensed under a Creative >> Commons license?. However, when I take a look at the FAQs >> ?http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/License? it says that ?XWiki >> is distributed under the LGPL license version 2.1? >> >> Is there a difference between those two? If so, which one is applicable? > > The platform (the java classes, the velocity templates, the javascript > and CSS files, and everything that comes in the .war archive) is under > the LGPL license. This means that every change you make to the platform > code must also be distributed under LGPL. Normally, you don't need to > change the platform code, which means that your part of the license > agreement is fulfilled if you inform somehow the user of the license, > and provide a link to the default sources. External programs that talk > to the wiki through other means don't have to be LGPL, they can have > whatever license you wish. > > The wiki documents (what you get in the default .xar archive) is > distributed under Creative Commons (CC-BY), which is a better suited > license for content. If you keep the default content, you must at least > credit XWiki. You are free to change the content as you wish, and any > new content you provide can have any other license you choose. Since the > license is only CC-BY and not CC-BY-SA, you can also change the license > of the default wiki content if you chance the content in any way.
Might be good to put on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/License Thanks -Vincent > >> I am asking because we have a customer who sells intranet SaaS >> solutions for small and middle sized companies. The question is: would >> it be OK if he integrates XWiki into his solutions. He does not want >> to use functions provided by xwiki in his code/programm and he >> wouldn?t charge extra for it. However he would alter the authorisation >> process and change the style. >> >> Thanks very much for your help, _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
