[ubuntu-uk] GPL etc.

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 26 December 2011 10:37, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
> I have found this one, however, which looks very nice but it isn't
> generic... it's specifically written as a Joomla plug-in
Before forking it, contacting the current authors to check if they are
happy to move to that way would be a polite move. If so, you can
contribute w/o a fork and everyone wins (you won't have to track their
changes and possibly maintain & patch their changes into your fork all
the time assuming you would like to be remotely compatible, with a
diverging code base and they will have a generic CMS editor. If they
don't want to, then go ahead, fork it. As long as you follow GPL
rules, you're allowed to do that.

If you aren't going to distribute it outside your environment at all,
you can do anything you like. You don't have to do anything as long as
you don't claim their work as yours. That would be unethical.