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... ... @@ -1,57 +1,47 @@ 1 - =License=1 +XWiki is distributed under the . 2 2 3 - XWiki is distributed under the [[LGPL>>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html]] license version 2.1.3 +The platform (the java classes, the velocity templates, the javascript and CSS files, and everything that comes in the .war archive) is distributed under the [[LGPL>>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html]] license version 2.1. This means that every change made to the platform code must also be distributed under LGPL. Normally, users, distributors and integrators don't need to change the platform code, which means that their part of the license agreement is fulfilled by informing somehow the user of the license of XWiki, and provide a link to the default sources. External programs that talk to the wiki through other means don't have to be LGPL, any license is acceptable. This includes custom components, plugins or authenticators included in the platform. 4 4 5 - {{toc start=""depth=""numbered=""/}}5 +The wiki documents (all the documents in the default .xar archive) are distributed under Creative Commons ([[CC-BY>>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/]]), which is a better suited license for content. This means that as long as the default content is kept, at least some credit must be given to XWiki for it. Any new content can have any other license, since CC-BY isn't viral. And, since we're not using a [[share-alike>>http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#What_are_the_terms_of_a_Creative_Commons_license.3F]] version of the creative commons family of licenses, even the license of the original content can be changed as long as it is modified in any way (a [[derivative work>>http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#What_is_a_derivative_work.3F]] is created). 6 6 7 -= =Copyright ==7 += Copyright = 8 8 9 -All the code is under the following copyright: 9 +All the code is under the following copyright, located in ##META-INF/NOTICE## (generated by our Maven build automatically): 10 10 11 11 {{code language="none"}} 12 -/* 13 - * Copyright 2004-2008, XpertNet SARL, and individual contributors. 14 - * 15 - * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 16 - * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 17 - * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 18 - * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 19 - * 20 - * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21 - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22 - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 23 - * Lesser General Public License for more details. 24 - * 25 - * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 26 - * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 27 - * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 28 - * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 29 - * 30 - * 31 - * This distribution includes the following modules: 32 - * 33 - * http://jakarta.apache.org: velocity, struts, jrcs, commons, etc.. 34 - * This distribution also includes libraries from the Apache Software 35 - * Foundation distributed under the terms of the Apache Software License. 36 - * See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apachepl.php 37 - * 38 - * http://www.hibernate.org: 39 - * This distribution includes libraries from hibernate.org distributed 40 - * under the terms of the Lesser General Public License. 41 - * See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html 42 - * 43 - * http://www.junit.org 44 - * This distribution includes libraries from junit.org distributed 45 - * under the terms of the Common Public License 46 - * See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php 47 - * 48 - * =================================================================== 49 - */ 12 +Copyright 2004-2011 XWiki 50 50 {{/code}} 51 51 52 - ==LGPLLicense Text==15 +For example for the XWiki Rendering API JAR the following ##NOTICE## file is generated: 53 53 54 54 {{code language="none"}} 18 +XWiki Rendering - Api 19 +Copyright 2004-2011 XWiki 20 + 21 +This product includes/uses software developed by 'an unknown organization' 22 + - javax.inject (http://code.google.com/p/atinject/) 23 + - jdom 24 + - HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/) 25 + 26 +This product includes/uses software developed by 'Apache Software Foundation' (http://www.apache.org/) 27 + - XML Commons External Components XML APIs (http://xml.apache.org/commons/#external) 28 + 29 +This product includes/uses software developed by 'MetaStuff Ltd.' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j) 30 + - dom4j (http://dom4j.org) 31 + 32 +This product includes/uses software developed by 'The Apache Software Foundation' (http://www.apache.org/) 33 + - Commons Lang (http://commons.apache.org/lang/) 34 + - Xerces2 Java Parser (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j) 35 + 36 +This product includes/uses software developed by 'XWiki' (http://xwiki.org/) 37 + - XWiki Commons - Component - API (http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-component/xwiki-commons-component-api) 38 + - XWiki Commons - Configuration - API (http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-configuration/xwiki-commons-configuration-api) 39 + - XWiki Commons - XML (http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-xml) 40 +{{/code}} 41 + 42 += LGPL License Text = 43 + 44 +{{code language="none"}} 55 55 GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 56 56 Version 2.1, February 1999 57 57