formmailer Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formmailer Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 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/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility I beleive WordPress has GNU v2 or later. Note: I am not saying that you should change the licence. /Jasper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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