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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/26/07 03:27
Martin Larsen wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>
>> They may interpret it as that way - I haven't seen their reasoning,
>> and quite frankly haven't checked their license in detail. But they
>> are completely within their rights to enforce conditions above and
>> beyond what GPL requires. They just can't require LESS than what GPL
>> requires.
>
> I can't say whether or not this is true (only the court can).
>
> However, I started this thread because I don't buy their arguments *why*
> plugins has to be GPL.
>
> To recap, they say:
>
> 1. Plugins has to be GPL because they are derivative work of Joomla
> 2. They are derivative work of Joomla because they are statically linked
> to it.
>
> That is the reason for me asking the question in the subject. And as you
> have pointed out, it really doesn't make much sense to talk about linking.
>
> The conclusion is that their arguments are entirely wrong.
>
> You asked in another post in this thread if there is another CMS that
> the plugin can be used with. There is: Mambo.
>
> Joomla is a fork of Mambo, and while Mambo is also GPL, the Mambo
> Foundation welcomes non-GPL plugins for the CMS. At this stage of the
> fork, the common code base is still large enough for a great many
> plugins to run under both systems without modications.
>
> There are also other forks, btw.
>
> So it is actually possible to sit in this white room without access to
> Joomla's code and write plugins for it, without using a single line of
> its code, and on top of it, have it running under Mambo too.
>
> Many plugins (at least the ones I wrote) can in a short time be modified
> to run standalone. Actually, one of my plugins is also published in a
> standalone version. The code it the same, except the interfact part to
> Joomla's API.
>
> Martin
This is a legal issue.l See your attorney.
Free legal advice (especially in this newsgroup) is worth exactly what
you paid for it.
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