Title: Plugin licensing with third party server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin licensing with third party server

 *  [sanjaajnas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanjaajnas/)
 * (@sanjaajnas)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-licensing-with-third-party-server/)
 * I’m developing WordPress Plugin that I would like to distribute trough WordPress/
   Plugin directory site. As far as I understood, every plugin in WordPress plugin
   directory site needs to be GPL compatible and licensed under the GPL terms. Going
   through GPL license terms I figured out that all source code needs to be open
   to all users.
    Now, I will try to explain how my plugin works. One of the plugin’s
   functionality is to communicate with my server providing data in XML file calculating“
   something” on server side and then returning result data to the site. I use this
   process of communication between site-server and my server due to the big database
   that is on my server that needs to be updated from time to time….. Client on 
   his Site-server receives only short, calculated data from my server in XML file.
   Since I would like that my plugin is also GPL licensed and provided trough WordPress
   Plugin directory I would need to know if It’s possible to license my plugin under
   GPL terms in form described before.

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