plugins - license ?

[2005 IR Help]

By: mavisha - mavisha123

plugins - license ?

2005-12-18 09:59

Greetings,

 

a question on license covering on new plugins

 

- enduser will be downloading and using the ireport from ireport site and will be taking commercial support option from jaspersoft.

 

- new plugins will be given to the enduser without charges

 

- say new plugin will be creating preset variables in ireport using ireport public apis which help the enduser.

 

Under above circumstances, is new plugin code needs to be kept as open source ? ireport is NOT getting embeded into the application, so I think no issue with GPL, plugin code is put into ireport and it uses ireport plugin architecture and ireport public apis. So I think plugin code need not be made open source

 

Any input on this is really appreciated.