"It makes me wonder how some of the great open-source projects got started
and became popular."
Maybe because there were no strings attached. If someone has to think
twice about something, you probably already lost most of them.
Thanks,
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Jordan Michaels <jordan
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10/14/2005 03:28 PM
Please respond to cf-talk
To: CF-Talk <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Any Interest in a Completely Free CFML
Calendar?
This was our thought as well, and the reason we decided to even attempt
this project. The current version of the calendar is installable, and
has some really neat features. however, there are a few bugs that need
to be fixed and the documentation still needs to be written for it. All
in all, a few hundred dollars worth of man-hours still need to be put
into it before it's ready to go. That's the difficult part, and the
reason we're attempting to determine interest in it.
What about the modified MIT license we're thinking about releasing it
under? With the addition of the third paragraph, we've essentially made
the calendar linkware. Is this too much? We're not asking users to link
to the main vivio site or anything commercial. We're simply asking for a
link back to the main calendar site. Is this sort of licensing too
restrictive to the very liberal MIT license to be useful? As developers,
would would this requirement cause you to think twice before using it?
The reason we added the third paragraph was because we wanted the effort
to grow, but perhaps there's a better way to do this? It makes me wonder
how some of the great open-source projects got started and became popular.
Thank you all for your input. =) We really appreciate it and please keep
it coming!
Warm regards,
Jordan Michaels
Vivio Technologies
Andy Matthews wrote:
>I would say that there would definitely be interest for something like
that.
>My thoughts are that CF won't be "more" popular than it currently is
until
>there's a larger base of "free scripts" out there for people to use.
>
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>andy matthews
>web developer
>ICGLink, Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordan Michaels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 4:29 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Any Interest in a Completely Free CFML Calendar?
>
>
>For some time now, Vivio Technologies has been debating whether or not
>to put forth the effort to complete the development of a completely
>free, (under a modified open-source MIT license) CFML calendar
>application. The idea was to develop a calendar application that anyone
>could do anything they want with, and help support the Cold Fusion
>community as a whole. Companies who develop in CFML would have the
>ability to -re-design, re-code, -re-brand, re-sell, or whatever else
>they wanted to do with the calendar application. The calendar would be
>able to run under BlueDragon FREE edition, and use open-source databases
>like PostgreSQL and MySQL. That way, no user anywhere would need to pay
>for anything more then the cost of hosting in order to deploy the
calendar.
>
>Our question is simple: Would there be any interest in something like
this?
>
>If there is significant interest, Vivio Technologies will make the
>investment to complete the project and deliver the calendar. If there is
>only a small amount of interest, then we'll quit wasting our time
>debating over this project and move on to projects which are of more
>value to us and/or the community.
>
>Please take a moment to visit our current calendar site located at the
>following URL:
>
>http://calendar.viviotech.net/
>
>Please understand that the calendar project isn't *quite* finished, but
>if there is interest we'll be more then happy to put the finishing
>touches (the spit and polish - if you will) on the calendar and make it
>available, completely free of charge, to the community.
>
>We welcome any comments you may have - good or bad. Thank you for
>helping us in this decision.
>
>--
>Warm regards,
>Jordan Michaels
>Vivio Technologies
>http://www.viviotech.net/
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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