Hello,
I'm on low budget developing new CMS.
I would like to use CKEditor but I am almost certainly going to have to hack it.
While many of the components of my CMS I am releasing under FOSS license (via phpclasses.org) the CMS itself is not open source. Initially it will be restricted to my hosting service while I finish working out the bugs and adding stuff that other people want that I never really cared about.
Anyway, I am on low budget and I can not afford the $1450 OEM license. When my product is successful (and I think it will be) I most certainly will even if I'm not required to, open source software (Apache, php, postgresql, etc.) are what is making this project possible on the budget I have in the first place.
In the meantime, is it sufficient license wise to distribute my patches against CKEditor?
Really all I need to do is make sure it outputs strict CSP compliant code (IE use class attributes but no style attributes) and hooks for processing done by the CMS (IE <video data-video="somevid" /> - which would trigger the CMS to create HTML5 media node with Flowplayer fallback) - I do not think the patches needed will be too significant, this looks like a rather solid interface and I've seen it used all over the place (hence why I'm here).
Thanks for comments/suggestions
I'm on low budget developing new CMS.
I would like to use CKEditor but I am almost certainly going to have to hack it.
While many of the components of my CMS I am releasing under FOSS license (via phpclasses.org) the CMS itself is not open source. Initially it will be restricted to my hosting service while I finish working out the bugs and adding stuff that other people want that I never really cared about.
Anyway, I am on low budget and I can not afford the $1450 OEM license. When my product is successful (and I think it will be) I most certainly will even if I'm not required to, open source software (Apache, php, postgresql, etc.) are what is making this project possible on the budget I have in the first place.
In the meantime, is it sufficient license wise to distribute my patches against CKEditor?
Really all I need to do is make sure it outputs strict CSP compliant code (IE use class attributes but no style attributes) and hooks for processing done by the CMS (IE <video data-video="somevid" /> - which would trigger the CMS to create HTML5 media node with Flowplayer fallback) - I do not think the patches needed will be too significant, this looks like a rather solid interface and I've seen it used all over the place (hence why I'm here).
Thanks for comments/suggestions
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