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Which parts of Content Uploader are open-source software, under which licence, and which are not.

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In short

  • The connectors you install on your own site, the Content Uploader Connector for Joomla and the WordPress plugin, are free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
  • You may use, study, change and share them under that licence. What you download is the complete source, and nothing in it is encoded or obfuscated.
  • A connector does nothing without a Content Uploader account. The service itself, meaning this website, the app and our servers, isn’t open source and is covered by the terms of service.
  • The Content Uploader name and logo aren’t licensed by the GPL.

This summary is only a guide. The full page below applies.

The connectors

A connector is the small piece of software you install on your own website so that Content Uploader can publish to it. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later).

  • Content Uploader Connector for Joomla. The pkg_cuconnect package, with the com_cuconnect component and the plg_webservices_cuconnect plugin, for Joomla 5 and 6. Copyright © 2026 Peter Ader, trading as Freaked-Out I.S.. Every version can be downloaded from the Joomla connector page. The package contains the licence text in LICENSE.txt, and every PHP file starts with a licence notice.
  • The WordPress plugin. It carries the same licence in its plugin header and in the LICENSE file it ships with.

What the licence lets you do

The GPL gives everyone who receives a connector these rights, with no fee and no licence key:

  • To run it, for any purpose.
  • To study how it works and change it to suit you.
  • To share copies of it.
  • To share your changed versions, under the same licence and with their source.

The licence’s own disclaimer of warranty applies to the connectors. Nothing here limits the rights the GPL gives you.

Source code

The connectors are written in PHP, and what you download is their source: plain files you can read, with no build step. Nothing in them is minified, encoded or obfuscated, and neither connector includes third-party code or libraries.

What isn’t open source

The Content Uploader website, the app, our servers and the way they read and process your files are not open-source software, and the connectors’ licence doesn’t cover them. You use the service under our Terms of Service and Privacy policy. It has a Free plan and paid plans.

A connector can’t publish anything until you sign in to Content Uploader and approve the connection from your site, and installing one shares nothing with us. The terms say what connectors are and how they’re kept up to date.

Questions

Write to legal@contentuploader.com with questions about licensing. If this page changes, the new version will be published here with a new date.