License And CopyrightLicenseAll changes commited to the osCommerce development repository must be licensed under the GNU General Public License on the same version osCommerce is licensed under. The current license version of the GNU General Public License is v2. This may change in future to v3 when the license has been finalized by the Free Software Foundation. CopyrightThe copyright on the core code-base changes group members commit to /trunk/ on the osCommerce development repository must be transfered to the osCommerce project, where the standard osCommerce header is shown at the top of each file: /* $Id: $ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright (c) 2007 osCommerce This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (1991) as published by the Free Software Foundation. */ This is required for legal reasons where the osCommerce team can successfully address legal issues as one party (for example, license violations), when a group member involved may no longer be active or reachable. Please forward any enquiries about this issue to a team member. The copyright policy will not apply to add-ons when the development server and repository has been extended to help manage contribution authors. As the add-ons are separate to the core code-base of osCommerce and not included in /trunk/ or in project releases, the copyright of the work involved will remain with the contribution author(s). |