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, > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
