[Owncloud] License

[Tim Atkins]

This answer confuses me more ;-)

And what about a PHP software (out of the box) that use the owncloud's REST
APIs ?

You tell about mobile apps, desktop apps interacting with ownCloud via REST
APIs ... you can have a webpage/software in other server, interacting via
REST API's with a ownCloud installation in other server.

Does that PHP source code (and the HTML views generated for User
Experience) need to have the AGPL license ?

I'm not trying to not credit ownCloud (it has to!), but avoiding to need to
give AGPL license to our main software, that would use ownCloud cloud
features for files, but nothing else more.

Thank you Frank



On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>
> >
> > Thank you in advance !
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