Hi, I downloaded MobileJoomla today and I am very confused by the license. The site reads:
www.mobilejoomla.com/license.html
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is released under GNU/GPL v2 license for the PHP Elements.
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is released under Mobile Joomla! Proprietary License for the Non-PHP Elements. The Non-PHP Elements are not compiled together with PHP, but instead sent independent of PHP code and combined in a client's browser, which is why they are not GNU/GPLv2 compliant as stated by the GNU/GPLv2 license.
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is licensed per one domain. You agree to provide a correct URL (where it's required).
We reserve the right to make changes to this agreement without any notice, however we commit to inform you for major changes
Looking at the plugins, I see that MobileJoomla is including the full version of Terawurfl from Scientiamobile:
wurfl.sourceforge.net/dbapi_index.php
this license seems very clearly to be AGPL version 3 (as included in every PHP file and README file):
/**
* Copyright (c) 2011 ScientiaMobile, Inc.
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* Refer to the COPYING file distributed with this package.
*
* @package WURFL
* @copyright ScientiaMobile, Inc.
* @author Steve Kamerman <steve AT scientiamobile.com>
* @license GNU Affero General Public License
* @version $id$
*/
further evidence that the usage of AGPL is not a coincidence is provided here:
wurfl.sourceforge.net/license.php
ScientiaMobile is offering the API with a dual-license scheme. Can someone from the team please comment on what the situation with regard to licensing is?
while I have no problem installing GPL software on my customer's website, AGPL makes things more tricky.
Best Regards
Luke
www.mobilejoomla.com/license.html
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is released under GNU/GPL v2 license for the PHP Elements.
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is released under Mobile Joomla! Proprietary License for the Non-PHP Elements. The Non-PHP Elements are not compiled together with PHP, but instead sent independent of PHP code and combined in a client's browser, which is why they are not GNU/GPLv2 compliant as stated by the GNU/GPLv2 license.
Every and each Mobile Joomla! Product is licensed per one domain. You agree to provide a correct URL (where it's required).
We reserve the right to make changes to this agreement without any notice, however we commit to inform you for major changes
Looking at the plugins, I see that MobileJoomla is including the full version of Terawurfl from Scientiamobile:
wurfl.sourceforge.net/dbapi_index.php
this license seems very clearly to be AGPL version 3 (as included in every PHP file and README file):
/**
* Copyright (c) 2011 ScientiaMobile, Inc.
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* Refer to the COPYING file distributed with this package.
*
* @package WURFL
* @copyright ScientiaMobile, Inc.
* @author Steve Kamerman <steve AT scientiamobile.com>
* @license GNU Affero General Public License
* @version $id$
*/
further evidence that the usage of AGPL is not a coincidence is provided here:
wurfl.sourceforge.net/license.php
ScientiaMobile is offering the API with a dual-license scheme. Can someone from the team please comment on what the situation with regard to licensing is?
while I have no problem installing GPL software on my customer's website, AGPL makes things more tricky.
Best Regards
Luke