On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:06:33AM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jeff Turner wrote: > > > JIRA open source licenses do not expire (nor do the commercial ones). > > (Just to be clear, that's a "JIRA license for open source projects" not > a JIRA open source license ;-)
Yes, thanks. > No, but the only way I know I'll be able to use the software in > perpetuity is if I have the source code for it on my computer. > Companies come and go. If I have the code I can continue working with > the software. Yep. Hence commercial (but not OSS) users get the source code too. > Don't suppose I can convince you to open the source? Wouldn't you love > all the cocoon developers submitting patches and helping you push your > product forward? If it were open source, people wouldn't buy it, I wouldn't get paid and I wouldn't be able to hack on Forrest ;) OSS + commercial software _can_ be nicely symbiotic. --Jeff > Andrew. > > -- > Andrew Savory Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Managing Director Tel: +44 (0)870 741 6658 > Luminas Internet Applications Fax: +44 (0)700 598 1135 > Orixo alliance: http://www.orixo.com/ Web: www.luminas.co.uk
