[cms-list] Is APLAWS really open source?

[Chris Withers]

Tom Weiss wrote:

The system, which cost 1.8 million pounds and formally concluded its

How much?!!

As Frodin says, adopting APLAWS in practice requires a council to
hire a development company to do the necessary customisation for
them.

That's true of any CMS, AFAIK.

Furthermore councils using the system are required to be active
participants in the APLAWS user group and commit funding or
development resources to future shared development projects,

Is this in the license? If so, I'm not sure APLAWS should really be calling itself open source...

cheers,

Chris

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