Questions about GPLv2 compatibility

  • Resolved Toothority Patient Education

    (@muvidental)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hey guys,
    I’m in the process of developing a plugin to make it easy for my many WordPess clients to embed our medical videos into their websites, instead of trying to explain how to edit their theme or use a combination of other plugins. I would like to list this plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory as well, but I’m confused about the GPLv2 license.

    On this page there is a line “Included third-party libraries, code, images, or otherwise, must be compatible” — if this refers only to what is actually included within the plugin folder, this works for us. However, the medical videos themselves which are streamed from our cloud server are not GPL. They’re proprietary and a premium product only. Is this still compatible? I see later on in that document it says “Plugins that act as an interface to some external third party service (e.g. a video hosting site) are allowed, even for paid services.” so I just wanted to be sure I understand.

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Moved to Everything else WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic.

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