Dear Oxwall Developers,

Dear Oxwall Community,

it would be great if YOU can help us to find the answer to our question here, since the approach via "contact us" was in vain.

Short intro:

We are a group of developers with the aim to use the Oxwall framework to turn a great idea into reality. Thereby we would like to keep the blocks of code closed and proprietary, which we intend to write on top of Oxwall, and just link it to Oxwall's open code. (The aim is to grow first from inside, before the project is strong enough to open up and contribute back to the Oxwall community.

Therefore the question:

Are we allowed to do so under Oxwall's CPAL 1.0 License, and keep the blocks of code closed and proprietary, which we intend to write on top of Oxwall, and just link it to Oxwall's open code? In addition, thereby at max just publishing where the links are ? - (just for the beginning time of the project)

Details:

The CPAL 1.0 license states under § 3.7that “Larger Work” is not governed by the CPAL 1.0 license and therefore the CPAL 1.0 does not apply to our “proprietary blocks of code”

“3.7 Larger Works.

    You may create a Larger Work by combining Covered Code with other code not     governed by the terms of this License and distribute the Larger Work as a single     product. In such a case, You must make sure the requirements of this License are fulfilled     for the Covered Code. “

At the same time CPAL 1.0 defines earlier under § 1.9the additional blocks of code merely as a “Modification” and consequently our blocks of code therefore would fall in § 3.1 under the open source governance of CPAL 1.0 license, which we intend for the beginning to avoid.

Dilemma:

Please give an advice to clarify how the Oxwall Software License governs our separate blocks of code.

And what rules do we need to obey, in order to keep our to be written blocks of code closed and proprietary – to thereby enjoy the freedom of “Larger Works” under § 3.7.

We thank the entire community for sharing the Oxwall experiences. And we hope to solve this one remaining issue and become finally a part of the community ourselves.

Best Regards from Germany,