[pLog-svn] templates/plugins have to be GPL without an "exemption"?

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Mon Sep 24 17:06:25 EDT 2007


This video has a couple interesting things to say:
http://opensourcecommunity.org/2007/07/08/how-open-source-projects-survive-poison-people-and-you-can-too

We probably haven't had too much trouble with this, maybe a little, but a 
good thing to keep in mind for future conversations:
http://bikeshed.com/

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jon Daley wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Matt Wood wrote:
>> I was more reacting to the guy just removing the link from the template. 
>> Not
>> that templates need to be <parent license> or not.
>> 
>> My basic argument is: just because the author of a template failed to 
>> comply
>> with the GPL, that does not give any rights to other people to disregard 
>> the
>> license said template is distributed with GPL instead. All you can do is
>> report the licensing infringement, sue the author or ask him nicely. You as
>> a user are not entitled to just change the license.
> 	Right.  I agree with that.  Though as project managers, if we thought 
> there was a violation, we probably shouldn't distribute the thing.
>
>> I can't help but think about the nVidia driver in linux though... how are
>> plugin's developed for lifetype different than nvidia's closed source 
>> driver
>> developed for linux using the exposed APIs?
> 	Right.  I had always thought the GPL meant as long as there was a 
> clean API line between what I wrote and what the GPL code had, it was okay 
> for my thing to not be under GPL.  It seems like the links you referred to 
> earlier was less obvious than what I had previously thought.
>
>> http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-gpl-license-question/
> 	Comment #4 sounds good.
>
>> http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=184557
>> http://cmsreport.com/node/1091
> 	Ok, now I have wasted too much time on this...  As Mark has said, I 
> think it is easier for us.  However, do we have some "official" written in 
> some obvious place regarding the official stance?  Maybe it should even be 
> included in the source code, rather than just on the wiki?
>

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