[Scribus] License of scripts

[Gregory Pittman]

avox wrote:
>
> Thomas R. Koll wrote:
>   
>> Hi Henning,
>>
>> Am 18.01.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Henning Schr?der:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi!
>>> As far as I understand Scribus is licensed under the GPL.  With the
>>> Python plugin I can write scripts and extensions which directly call
>>> the Scribus core and gui. Do these files automatically fall under the
>>> GPL or can I choose another license?
>>> Perhaps some clarification is needed.
>>>       
>> Absolutely not. The author of the script has all rights of his
>> script and this cannot be changed by any relating software
>> and its license.
>>
>>     
>
> True. You just loose all rights to use Scribus if you distribute those
> scripts
> under a non-GPL licence... ;-)
>
> Seriously, I don't know what the exact position of the Scribus team
> is on this point. Maybe we should clarify that in the future.
> For myself I wouldn't like it if someone distributed Scribus together with
> non OSS scripts, but I can (probably have to) live with someone distributing 
> the scripts independently of Scribus. 
> Let's see what the others think.
>   
I would hope that we don't ever come to worrying about this. It's a bit 
like the reaction Linus Torvalds has to suggestions that Linux contains 
proprietary code -- show it to us and we'll remove it and rewrite the 
offending bits. One thing about scripts in general is that there is no 
way to come up with "novel" command lines. The syntax is established as 
part of  the Scripter plugin. There might even be difficulties if 
someone tried to write their own extensions to the plugin -- the hooks 
you have to work with were created as part of Scribus.
There are some special circumstances -- the scripts bundled with Scribus 
obviously are covered by Scribus's license. Those published on the Wiki 
are by definition bound by the license of the Wiki.

Greg