On 05/08/2011 09:11 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> 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

Done.

> 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,
>


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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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