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On 04/11/2010 12:23, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:home@oranges.id.au">home@oranges.id.au</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">A friend of mine would like to take the database schema from a Magento
eCommerce installation and use it to develop and sell licences for a
non-free piece of software. As per
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/license/">http://www.magentocommerce.com/license/</a> Magento is distributed under
the OSL 3.0 licence <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php">http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php</a>
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"A friend", eh? Is this the same friend when we go to the doctors
and talk about this friend's unusual rash? :)<br>
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone have an overview understanding of that licence so we can
be lazy and avoid reading and trying to understand the entire thing?
More pertinently, is he allowed to do that?
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Well, reference the OSL text at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php">http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php</a>, the licence is fairly
easy to read. It appears that you can copy (1a) and make a derived
works (1b), and you can sell it commercially (2), but you must "<i>carry
a prominent Attribution Notice reasonably calculated to inform
recipients that You have modified the Original Work</i>". That's
an advertising clause; if you use their software (and I'd include
the schema and documentation under this unless stated elsewhere),
then you'll probably need to have an "About box" or splash screen
that says something like "Incorporates Magento Technology" or
something like that. <br>
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I've read a few items on the web and the OSL seems to be in the realms
of the GNU GPL[1] but gnu.org says there are notable differences. In
any case, my friend's interest is not in the 'software code' per se,
rather the database schema. Are they to be treated any differently?
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I'd suggest chatting with the Magneto People and see if they are
happy and what "Attribution Notice" text would be appropriate.<br>
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James<br>
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