[Owncloud] License

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 19.12.2013, at 00:03, Tim Atkins <ttim.atkinss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I've been reading other similar questions in the forums, but some of them refer to this mailing list to be safe.
> 
> We are planing to include owncloud as part of a bigger software, since the cloud features are solid and good enough (good job! by the way).
> 
> We do understand the AGPL license, but we want to be sure.
> 
> If we code new owncloud applications and we don't change the core, that new programming, as it's addon to the core, would apply AGPL also ? Would we need to apply AGPL to those addons applications we would do ?

It depends what addons you mean here.
Applications who are running "out of process" can have any license you choose. Examples are mobile apps, desktop apps, server applications that interact with ownCloud via WebDAV der the REST APIs and so on. AGPL doesn't restrict anything here.

Addons that are running in the same process as ownCloud has to have the same license or a compatible license as ownCloud. This is the case for PHP code that is used to extend ownCloud like the ownCloud apps. Compatible licenses are AGPL itself and every other license that has less restrictions for the users like Apache or MIT.


Frank



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