I am a little bit curious about Ryan's reasons to licence ProcessWire under GNU/GPL v2 and not under the newer GNU/GPL v3. Is there a special reason for this choice?
/Jasper
Just curious, why GNU/GPL v2 and not GNU/GPL v3
Started by formmailer, Nov 30 2011 03:38 PM
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Posted 01 December 2011 - 04:03 PM
Good question. In this case, primarily because TinyMCE is GPL v2, and we include TinyMCE in our distribution. I don't think we can legally GPL v3 something that includes GPL v2 code unless that code's license is worded GPL v2 "or newer". Also, I am not very legal minded and there was a little bit of "go with the flow" and use the same license as WordPress/Drupal, which seemed like a safe thing to do. I couldn't find any GPL v3 licensed CMSs at the time I was figuring out how to license PW, so associated some risk due to the lack of examples.
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Posted 02 December 2011 - 07:57 AM
I understand, although I am not legal minded either. 
I noticed that Tinymce is licenced under LGPL 2.1. As far as I understand things, this would mean that it's possible to use GPL v3 for PW.
http://www.gnu.org/l...llCompatibility
I beleive WordPress has GNU v2 or later.
Note: I am not saying that you should change the licence.
/Jasper
I noticed that Tinymce is licenced under LGPL 2.1. As far as I understand things, this would mean that it's possible to use GPL v3 for PW.
http://www.gnu.org/l...llCompatibility
I beleive WordPress has GNU v2 or later.
Note: I am not saying that you should change the licence.
/Jasper
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