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Re: Licence question: using AGPL and Odoo proprietary modules on the same server

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Re: Licence question: using AGPL and Odoo proprietary modules on the same server

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Tecnativa. S. L., Pedro M. Baeza
- 08/09/2025 13:07:40
OCA should veil for the open source part of Odoo (https://odoo-community.org/about). Encouraging to use LGPL only favors the closed source part of the ecosystem, as you can mount on top OCA LGPL modules any private module, so people will only provide to/improve OCA base tools, while keeping by themselves the finished business solutions as private. That's why if we relicense even these base tools to LGPL, the real value provided by OCA will go down, only getting base/tool modules that are not finished business solutions. That's why we should force people to play with the same open source rules. And the tool for that is AGPL. Imagine if my company Tecnativa would retain their RMA, HR shift, resource booking, etc complete apps as private because technically they don't depend on AGPL code, what would OCA be without them?

And this is not something that each individual should investigate, OCA should invest resources in assuring that there's no problem in this, and as this sometimes requires an initial jurisprudence case, to assure that if that case comes one day, OCA will provide the legal assistance. If none of these things happen, OCA would fail in its mission IMO.

Regards.

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