Scope of Open-Xchange App Suite - End User License Agreement (EULA)?

[vbrillau]

Hi,

While checking the difference licenses used in Open-Xchange App Suite, I found the `Open-Xchange App Suite - End User License Agreement (EULA)` on https://www.open-xchange.com/licenses-ox-app-suite/. On this list, it's not clear on what this EULA applies.
From what I had understood:

• The front-end of the Open-Xchange App Suite (all packages in https://software.open-xchange.com/pr...le/appsuiteui/) are under CC-BY-NC-SA
  • Minor comment here: the link above mentions version 2.5 specifically, but most packages themselves only specify CC-BY-NC-SA while some specify CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0. You might want to clarify which version you are referring to?
• The back-end of the Open-Xchange App Suite (all packages in https://software.open-xchange.com/pr...table/backend/) are under GPL 2.0
  • I didn't check all packages, but I realized that open-xchange-gui-help-plugin is under "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic" (verbatim, no acronym). Is it in the "wrong" repo?

From the EULA itself, it mentions `The OX Software for the terms of this EULA includes, but is not limited to OX Documents, OX Drive, OX Drive App, OX Mail App, OX Guard.`.
While some of them, for example `OX Guard` are clearly outside of the scope of the Open-Xchange Community Edition and required a paid license, I'm not sure for some others, like OX Drive, which I thought require a license but for which few packages (open-xchange-drive*) appear on the backend repos marked as "GPL-2.0" themselves...

Could you please clarify the scope of the Open-Xchange App Suite - End User License Agreement (EULA)?
Does it apply only to the non community editions or does it applies to both community and licensed editions?

Thanks in advance,
Vincent

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Hi,
I can comment on a few technical things only. (I will reach out internally if someone else can comment on the less technical ones.)

open-xchange-gui-help-plugin - actually this should be obsolete. I'm a bit surprised it's still there which I think is an oversight.

Historically this package just contained a settings file for another package which was living in the old UI repository.

[vbrillau]

Hi!

Seeing https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/fron...7f63c295fe1823 and https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/midd...fae60db9165a80, I checked the packages in https://software.open-xchange.com/pr.../RHEL7/noarch/ & https://software.open-xchange.com/pr.../RHEL7/noarch/ and I see now that they they are all AGPLv3+.

I also checked https://www.open-xchange.com/licenses-ox-app-suite/ and I think that the page has been a bit reorganized, with the EULA only appearing under Open-Xchange App Suite for Univention Corporate Server, making it clearer (at least I think it does, even if the text of the EULA is still referring everything).

Thanks for the license change (AGPLv3+ seems cleaner than CC-BY-NC-SA for code) and for the various cleanup/clarifications!