Hi,
I have read the LGPL licence but it left me with one question:
Is it allowed to use fckeditor in a commercial content management system?
I have read the LGPL licence but it left me with one question:
Is it allowed to use fckeditor in a commercial content management system?
RE: Commercial Use
RE: Commercial Use
GPL: if you use a GPL program in your application, your entire application also becomes GPL.
LGPL: if you use a LGPL program in your application, when distributing your aplication you must include the source and the LGPL copy write for the LGPL scripts you are using (FCKEDITROR), but you can copyright, and encode the rest of the code (your programing work).
Chris
RE: Commercial Use
Chris
RE: Commercial Use
I understand why people get really confused about the whole LGPL license. The problem lies in the fact that very few people actually redistribute their web apps on say, a CD, so the whole thing about 'it's free if you give away the source code when redistributing' makes very little sense.

Instead, most users will let people use their web apps via a subscription scheme. My understanding is that this would be LGPL compliant, but I'm not a lawyer.
MySql has the same problem, with a lots of companies getting fed up by a confusing licensing scheme that bares little ressemblance to the on-the-ground realities of web applications.
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