Posted by neelaj82 on April 13, 2023 at 6:21pm
Hello all,
As you know Drupal is licensed under GPL and so are its contributed modules. Our team is using a lot of contributed modules on top of the core modules.
Will the html, our website that is generated (which is built by various different core/contributed modules/custom modules) will be also under GPL? Can you please confirm this?
Thanks,
Neela Joshi
Comments
Will the html/content also require GPL? No.
As you may have noticed, this GDO group isn't very active. The short answer is content created with an application where the code is licensed at GPL does not impact how the content can be licensed. Drupal, WordPress and Joomla all use the GPL license so this would impact a large portion of the internet if the licensing worked that way. The popular open source Moodle Learning Management Systems is also licensed as GPL, but the GPL isn't just for applications that produce/manage web content. The GPL is used on many popular applications used to create many types of content...
Gimp for Images - https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#whats-the-gimps-license-and-how-d...
Notepadd++ for text - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Git (the root of GitLab and GitHub) for code - https://git-scm.com/about/free-and-open-source
LibreCAD for 2D computer-aided design documents - https://librecad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appx/licenses.html
If you still have questions, let's continue this conversation in https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal_lwg or the #license channel on https://drupal.slack.com/, but the GPL licensed used for Drupal core and most contrib modules is not inherited by the design or content of a site created with Drupal.
Thank you for the
Thank you for the information.