Graziano said: -
> nice , I am working on it 8 hours day , is there something strange if I
ask a little sum for it ?
Yes. It's rude. It may also be illegal.
ASSP is an example of "Open Source Software" (OSS). The model for developing
OSS is that a number of people collaborate to produce something that they
make available to the community for free - at no charge ("free beer"), and
with the right to modify it ("free speech").*
This list is a forum used by the developers and testers of ASSP, as well as
other interested parties. New users also get to ask questions and get useful
answers, provided they follow the normal netiquette and are "clueful".
All these people are expending a considerable amount of their time and
effort - free of charge - doing useful work for the community. Those who
develop, those who test, those who answer questions are all working. It's
insulting to suggest that you can charge money - no matter how little - for
riding on their coattails, and taking advantage of their work.
> may I use openldap instead of ldap ?
LDAP is a standard. All implementations are supposed to follow the standard,
and be inter-operable. OpenLDAP is an implementation of LDAP - an OSS
implementation, as it happens, just like ASSP is. Most OSS software is
released under a license that prevents people from taking the open source
software, which they (usually) got for free, and incorporating it in some
software that they charge money for without making it also open source..
ASSP is licensed under the GNU General Public License
<http://assp.sourceforge.net/fom/cache/94.html>
http://assp.sourceforge.net/fom/cache/94.html. The GNU license does *NOT*
prevent you from charging for the distribution of OSS software - for example
to cover the cost of shipping, cost of support, etc., but it *DOES* prevent
you from incorporating, using or distributing the software in any way
without granting everyone else the same rights that you have enjoyed from
the original authors. Simply put: if you gain any benefit from the OSS
community, you must give back to the community
OpenLDAP has its own license terms, which you would be required to follow if
you incorporate their code.
> I think that I'll not share it for now , however I will sell it (next
days) at a very very low price , more a donation than a price.
So, by creating and releasing software that makes use of ASSP and / or
OpenLDAP and charging for it, you piss off many of the people on this list -
and probably the OpenLDAP lists too - but you may do so legally. By making
that software proprietary, by not sharing it, and by not following the
appropriate license conditions, you may find yourself in court - from both
the ASSP community and perhaps from OpenLDAP.org / University of Michigan.
So, saying "I'll not share it for now" is your main mistake, in my opinion.
IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), but does that answer the question?
* One will often hear the "free beer" / "free speech" analogy in discussions
of OSS. Different OSS licenses have different things to say about the "free
beer" part, but they pretty well all incorporate the "free speech" part.
Kind regards,
William Stucke
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