Which license for derivative works?

Hi,

I'm setting up a CKEditor integration on Codeplex for Orchard CMS.

I'm not sure which license to choose for the project; CKEditor itself has three different license but I can only choose one on codeplex.

So I was going to go with GPLv2; is this ok, and are there any pros/cons I should be aware of?

Thanks

Mon, 04/25/2011 - 13:00

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Which license for derivative works?

I think that you are asking the wrong question.

What you must do is find out what's the license that you want for YOUR code, then also "use" CKEditor with that license.
I've quoted "use" because I don't think that you might need to change really anything in your code, but I'm not any kind of lawyer.

Also, even if you can upload to Codeplex only under one license, I don't think that there's any problem if you have that same code under the three licenses in other places.

So: pick the license that you think that it's better for your project, as long as it's compatible with CKEditor you should be fine.

Mon, 04/25/2011 - 15:17

serializer

Joined: 16/08/2007

Posts: 74

Re: Which license for derivative works?

Thanks, that makes sense. I was just a bit confused as to whether a project containing ckeditor needed a specific license but obviously ckeditor has its own licenses included in its subfolder.

You're right I don't need to change any of the ckeditor code. I've taken over from another developer and originally there were customizations to config.js but I've now I'm using a different and more module-friendly way of inserting config thru CKEDITOR.replace.