[License-discuss] OSL and AFL

[Antoine Thomas]

Hello,

This is my first message to this mailing list and I hope I will do things
well.

I am Developer Advocate at PrestaShop. Our company and project is focused
around our open source ecommerce solution. Thanks to the openness of the
project, we have built a strong ecosystem of agencies, freelances,
contributors, and of course, merchants.

Currently, the project's core is distributed in OSL 3.0. And all the
modules and themes are distributed in AFL 3.0. This a legacy choice, from
the beginnings of the company 11 years ago.

I joined the PrestaShop company recently, with the aim of growing the
developers community. And recently, we discussed with a developer who wants
to contribute an interesting piece of code to the project: a new basic
theme, with a lot of improvements, in a separate repository. This is quite
new for us, and we would like to use this case as an example for future big
contributions like this one (governance rules, license, code review, ...)

My problem: with this mix of OSL in the core and AFL for the modules and
themes, I don"t know what license this repository should use.

The code in this new repository will be based on a piece of code in OSL
from the core project. However, this specific part of the core will be used
to create themes. And, most people distribute their themes and plugins in
AFL, as this is what we asked from the beginnings.

So, I am looking for advice. If we want to be sure that the code in the new
repository can be distributed in AFL, maybe we need to distribute a part of
the core, or, the entire core, in double licence OSL + AFL ? Can we update
the license of only a small part of the core project ? What do you think ?

Or, more difficult, do you think that we should change the licence of the
core and the module to one license ? But which one ? This is actually
difficult to find resources about OSL and AFL: only a few projects are
using it.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Antoine





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Antoine Thomas aka ttoine

Developer Advocate

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