[Owncloud] Can third party apps be closed source?

[Bernhard Posselt]

On 03/19/2013 08:07 PM, Muljadi Budiman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Have been trying to get an answer to this, can't find anything relevant in the mailing list in the past 3 months and none of the readme in the code seem to say anything, and none of the current existing apps are closed source, so…
>
> If I deploy Owncloud to a private web server (but does serve outside to the public), and I make third party apps for it, can I keep the third party app closed source?  I understand that if my third party app need special functionality and I have to add new APIs to the Owncloud core, I have to release the core changes.  But do I need to make the third party apps source be available?
>
> Thanks.
> Muljadi Budiman.
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No, unless you buy the enterprise version. The app has to be available 
under an AGPLv3 compatible license if you make it available.

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