Subject: Re: proprietary plugins
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 07:51:47 CST
> Just to set the record straight. Any plugin that includes *ANY* of
> abiword's *.h or *.cpp files in it's source code must relicense all it's
> source code as GPL. Brought to you curtesy of Richard Stallman :-)
*.cpp, yes, but not *.h - but certainly, if the plugins use AbiWord
functionality they need to be GPL compatible. And, of course, proprietary
plugins may be used in-house without license worries; for example, a
company may wish to encrypt/decrypt abiword documents and write a plugin
for this...
> BTW if any commercial plugin providers want to distribute abiword (as
> the abiword program) they had better also talk to Eric Sink since
> SourceGear holds the trademark on the name "AbiWord"
I wonder what the implications of this are for OpenOSX's AbiWord...
Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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