Solved Kunena and EasySocial

G'day, imarklee, and welcome to our community.

Thank you for your helpful input to this topic. We appreciate it.

According to your website :

STACKIDEAS.COM PROPRIETARY USE LICENSE

The STACKIDEAS.COM Proprietary Use License covers any images, cascading stylesheets, manuals and JavaScript files in any extensions produced and/or distributed by STACKIDEAS.COM. These files are proprietary of STACKIDEAS.COM (Stack Ideas Sdn. Bhd.), copyrighted and cannot be redistributed in any form without prior permission from STACKIDEAS.COM (Stack Ideas Sdn. Bhd.)

This does not seem to conform to the GNU GPL licence. We don't want to get into any legal entanglement here, but if there are conditions of your licensing terms that exclude your products from listing on the Joomla Extensions Directory, we would prefer to steer the "safe" legal course.

That having been said, the Kunena APIs are published as open source and are available to any Joomla extension developer to use in any way they desire (subject, of course, to the same intellectual property conditions that apply to all software licensed under the GPL).

In responding to lagen's request for information about the plans that the Kunena team has to develop a plugin for integrating EasySocial with Kunena, I think I have made clear our position. We have no plans to develop the integration that lagen has requested.

Hello sozzled,

Wow, thanks for the quick reply and appreciate it very much!

I don't think you guys should worry about that block in the license file because that is only to protect our theme files. The core files are all licensed under the GNU GPL v2 license. In fact that license block was suggested by the team from JED as some of our templates were being copied by 3rd party extension and they did mention that we are allowed to license our theme files (non core files) to be licensed under a different license.

I would love to have you guys on board to build a strong integration between EasySocial and Kunena but if there's no plans for this, we'll have to build it ourselves I guess.

Thanks for clarifying the "legal questions"; this makes a lot more sense to me.

The Kunena team has an ambitious program of work on its hands at the moment so that we can stay on top of our game. These activities have stretched the team's resources considerably.

We're always on the look-out for skilled developers to work with the project to enrich Kunena in ways that are not always possible when there's only so much work one can do with the time (and money) available. In this case, it is fortunate that we've opened a dialog with Stackideas. I think it would advantage both Kunena and EasySocial if you contacted our lead developer directly (his address is on our team page) and let him know what ideas you have in mind.

Cheers

Ah coolio! I will try to get in touch with Matias. I believe I have been working with him very long ago when JomSocial initially launched (I was part of the core developers of JomSocial quite a while back)

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond here!

I want to chime in that it would be great if EasySocial was added as an integration.

I'm starting to built a website with EasySocial and I plan to use it with Kunena which is, in my opinion, the best forum.
It would be too bad if we had to choose between Easysocial and Kunena.