OpenCMS og GNU licens

Hvis du inkluderer GPL kode i dit produkt skal din kode
også være GPL.

Hvis du inkluderer LGPL kode i dit produkt har du intet
problem.

Jeg synes at kunne læse at det er lgpl licensen der benyttes:
http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/download/opencms.html

Fra licensen:

We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License because it
does Less to protect the user's freedom than the ordinary General
Public License.  It also provides other free software developers Less
of an advantage over competing non-free programs.  These disadvantages
are the reason we use the ordinary General Public License for many
libraries.  However, the Lesser license provides advantages in certain
special circumstances.

For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special need to
encourage the widest possible use of a certain library, so that it becomes
a de-facto standard.  To achieve this, non-free programs must be
allowed to use the library.  A more frequent case is that a free
library does the same job as widely used non-free libraries.  In this
case, there is little to gain by limiting the free library to free
software only, so we use the Lesser General Public License.


IANAL med det læser jeg som om du ikke behøver at gøre koden Open Source.

Fra http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/support/faq.html

Does using the LGPL mean that all additions to OpenCms must be Open Source as well?

OpenCms has a build in module API (which is in fact a Java interface). All modules that use that API are in terms of the LGPL "works that use the library" and therefore are not bound by the LGPL license.

However, if additions or changes to the core system are made, the result is a derivative work, and certain restrictions apply, the most important being that the license used for the derivative work must also be the LGPL.

So companies can develop their additions to OpenCms as a module and choose any license they like. However, the OpenCms core system and all enhancements or additions to it will stay Open Source.

http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/info/licenses/license_alkacon_gpl.html

antyder altså godt nok at det er GPL ikke LGPL.

Okay! nu har jeg overhovedet ikke forstand på sådanne licenser men hvis jeg brugte min sunde fornuft ville jeg da tro at de ville ryge under GNU licensen da  det er et åbent koncept...

/Daniel K

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Selvfølgelig er det GNU license.

Spørgsmålet er om det er GPL eller LGPL.

Men der står trods alt "unless otherwise noted", så de downloads
der eksplicit står LGPL på må være LGPL.


Inklusive altså core OpenCMS.

Og så er diverse moduler:
http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/download/modules/index.html
GPL !

Også fra FAQ'en:

What license is used for OpenCms?

OpenCms uses the lesser GNU general public license, or LGPL, version 2.1. The LGPL is one of the most accepted Open Source licenses. It is verified as a "true" Open Source license by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The full text of the LGPL is available on the website of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). For further information about the LGPL, please see the website of the FSF.

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