• Registered: 2008-10-10
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Topic: Plugins, integration and the GPL

8. Plugins must be released under the GNU General Public License or
    a GPL compatible license. Copy the GPL preamble at the top of
    this file into your plugin script and alter the copyright notice
    to refrect the author of the plugin (i.e. you).

I have a gaming cms that i programmed in php. I would like to integrate my cms with punbb. Am I allowed to protect my code (encryption) as long as I do not encrypt any of the punbb coding?

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  • MattF
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Re: Plugins, integration and the GPL

If it integrates with, or uses, PunBB code, then it has to be GPL.

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  • From: Russia
  • Registered: 2007-12-13
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Re: Plugins, integration and the GPL

MattF wrote:

If it integrates with, or uses, PunBB code, then it has to be GPL.

Right.

I may say it another way: if your application crushes or looses part of it's functionality without PunBB, it must be under GPL.

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