Hi!

I would like to know more about, how to use XOOPS legally for commercial purposes. I will give some situations, they expand each other:
- I would like to start a portal for an organization, the hosting is on the servers of a local ISP, they have preinstalled php,mysql,apache on their servers.
- Then I would like to make new modules for XOOPS corresponding to the requests of the organization
- Then I would like to make modifications to the base XOOPS system.
- If I make these things, I will have to publish the source code, because of the GPL license. Or: Is there any possibilities to buy a license, or is it neccessary, if I won't sell the XOOP software to the organization, only my work (design, installation, new modules).
- And another tricky thing: If I buy XOOPS, it will be on a server with a preinstalled mysql, but what about mysql? Should I buy it either?

Thanks for Your time, hope this topic is not needless! :)

Hi nyuwec,

Welcome to XOOPS

You can use XOOPS for commercial purposes

You must leave credit intact in the source code, but it is not nessasery to display credit on the page.

Making new modules is fine, you don't have to publish them, but they must conform to the GNU licence, and must be open source, unless they can run stand alone. If they need the XOOPS core to function then they must follow the same licence. On a side note it's good to share, as that's how the community builds.

You can make modifications to the core but again you must leave credit intact.

It is not possible to buy XOOPS or MySQL they are both open source, donations are always welcome.

It is fine to sell your services to the company but not xoops.

Hope that helps