Premium paid plugins and GNU Affero GPL
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Hello Frog CMS community, I have a question regarding the licensing terms. Under the conditions of GNU Affero General Public License am I free to sell professional plugins or are they considered modification of the source code base and as such fall under the Affero licensing terms? Or if I write a plugin am I bound to offer the underlying source code? Regards |
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I’d like to know the answer to this also. |
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Writing a plugin is akin to developing a software based off of an SDK or an API. You don’t modify the work or its source itself, you just extend it. As such, you are pretty much free to do with your own stuff however you want. You write/wrote the plugin, not the CMS Author(s). It’s your call. You own the copyright on the plugin, not the CMS Author(s). Again, you are free to deal with your plugins however the heck you want; they belong to you. That being said, I personally think such an approach is rubbish, and in contradiction with the spirit of open source software. |