[Typo3-dev] New extension

[Martin Seebach]

Martin T. Kutschker wrote:

> Still the Typo3 PHP-code and JS-code will form together with the 
> 3rd-party PHP and/or JS-code the application. Specifically the 
> 3rd-party code will be embedded in TYpo3 which is GPLed. So even if 
> you write code that generate code itself, the resulting machine 
> created code will run in a GPLed envoriment. 

The GPL deals specifically with distributing, not using or running.

You can take the Linux kernel and combine it with the Windows XP source,
if you want, and never be in trouble with GPL (Microsoft is another
story ;) ). What isn't allowed is distributing the new combination.

You can, however, release the 'glue', ie. an extension making an
unmodified version of proprietry software product X work inside TYPO3,
and in the extention documentation provide information on how and where
to install X to make it work.

Wether such incomplete extensions should be allowed in TER is another story.

Venlig hilsen
Martin Seebach