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no GPL licensing for plug-ins?

1 Nov 17, 2006 23:40    

Hi,

I have a client that is interested in using b2Evolution and we already have a test site done. But when I went to get two of the needed plug ins I noticed that none of them have any licensing agreement with them. As a mater of fact I checked 8 plugins and none had anything in the way of a BSD or GPL license.

The result of our last conversation was that we would use the single b2E site and connect it to wordpressmu. This is because he has fallen in love with the b2E backend but does not want to be bothered with hunting down and questioning b2e plugin authors.

The b2evolution developers might want to think about enforcing licensing for plugins linked to the website. It would go a long way to increasing b2E popularity I think.

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2 Nov 18, 2006 00:41

Seconded.

A line like the following should be in the first docblock:
[code]
@license http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html GNU General Public License (GPL)
[/quote]
or
[code]
@license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU General Public License (GPL)
[/quote]

I believe most plugin authors just have forgotten it, because they don't care really/enough (becuase it's considered "boring").

I'll check the ones in the evocms-plugins repository (at SourceForge.net) and add notes or fix them, as most are done by me there still.

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3 Nov 18, 2006 01:20

* This version isn't copyrighted by EdB {@link http://wonderwinds.com/}

I guess that should say the official stuff eh? Like spell out it's GNU for those into seeing that I don't claim any ownership of any hackage I do. I wonder something. Is it technically legal for b2evolution to say "If you provide a skin or plugin for b2evolution that does not state a specific license or copyright then it is automagically assumed to carry the same licensing as b2evolution"?

Not that anyone likes my plugin :'(

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4 Nov 18, 2006 01:26

You could probably just say that it's "public domain" for example. Even the example "no copyright" would allow to use it everywhere.

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5 Nov 18, 2006 02:57

When i was reading the b2evo license i am sure it mentioned that anything we add into b2evo also is protected by the same license... That's one and the main reason i haven't bothered looking into licensing for my b2evo addons...

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6 May 25, 2007 21:25

I'm guilty of this, sorry. I just added this line to the YouTube plugin:

@license http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html GNU General Public License (GPL)

And I'll add it to my others, too. Is that all I need to do to make this free to use?

I haven't done a new release yet.

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7 May 25, 2007 21:31

Here is the header from one of my plugins 

/**
 * This file implements the Sticky Announcements Plugin for b2evolution
 *
 * Sticky Announcements Plugin
 *
 * b2evolution - {@link http://b2evolution.net/}
 * Released under GNU GPL License - {@link http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html}
 * Released on 19/12/2006 @ 02:05 GMT+08:00
 * Version 1.2.0.0-beta
 * @copyright (c)2006 by Benjamin "balupton" Lupton - {@link http://balupton.com/}
 *
 * @package plugins
 * @ignore
 */

I think you just need the @copyright line, the released under line and that @license line you did

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