Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Due to a small issue with someone 'stealing' an open-source CF product, we at > Fusion Authority (http://www.fusionauthority.com) would like to showcase the > various fully formed open source CF projects around. If you are writing such > a project, moving a formerly for pay project to open source or planning one, > please email me off list with the information so we can add it in. Also, if > you are active in the open source community and want to write or contribute > to an article, let me know. We have a few ideas in the hopper at the moment. > Thank you for your help in this and keep up the good work. > (and yes, I know Raymond is the king of CF Open Source)
I've got a few small comments on this as the author of numerous CF open source projects including a "competing" blog project BlogCFM and my coldfusion file manager, CFFM. Ray's "license" has always been exceptionally informal. His seems to be the "You can use it, don't ask me" license" What that means is that what Ray Horn did is perfectly legal and acceptable under Ray's generous license. It may be against the concepts of open source, but it's legitimate. I've always licensed my stuff more formally, using the basic BSD open source license. It's awfully similar to Ray's except that the BSD license specifically states: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted..." and the only restriction placed on it is that the original licnese be included in the distribution (along with the usual waivers of liability) That being said... if you really don't want people doing what Ray Horn did, then you use a more restrictive form of open source licensing, like the GPL or the LGPL or any of the variety of other licenses that place restrictions on commercial redistribution of the software. All that being said... I think the guy's a scumbag. rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229803 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
