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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

On 02/11/2013 04:36 PM, Alexandre Bairos wrote:
> Got it.
> So it's related to the nature of OpenERP's software modules rather 
> than licensing.

Hi Alexandre,

in my opinion as a non-lawyer it is also the license.

In their FAQ, GNU claims that a module for a specific program is subject 
to a viral license. See 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLModuleLicense

The copyright holders can license their code otherwise of course, but 
anyone using it as a module in OpenERP is effectively relicencing the 
code as AGPL. And these users are only allowed to do that if AGPL is an 
existing licencing option granted by the copyright holders.

Cheers,
Stefan.