I have a question about the "When (and even whether) we release a "final" GPL image is Mitel's choice." That is not really true. If you have shipped a commercial package using GPL software, you are required to provide source freely. This is not really your choice, as every piece of software packaged was not written by e-smith. Now, you could decide to close the template system and web frontend as that is the only e-smith only code (as far as I know anyway), but since it is perl anyway that would probably just irritate people more than anything else. Now, I am no expert on the GPL, but it seems if you have released 5.6 final to customers/partners, then you are required by the GPL to release that source. Is this incorrect? Can a company using Linux decide to close their source except to customers? And before I get some flame response, I am not criticizing e-smith's decision to withhold the final iso, but am rather curious if that is legal under terms of GPL.
Ryan Duffner OnTarget Tech. -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Rowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:59 PM To: Darrell May Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] release 5.6 On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:02:06PM -0000, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Laurent Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I have a simple question : does SME 5.6 still a GPL licence software > > or Mitel has decided to keep the source for them ? > > A very good question Laurent. > > A positive answer from Mitel stating, "No worries, GPL release is > coming" would certainly end this concern immediately. No worries, GPL release is coming. Did I really need to say that? As Jaime said, 5.6Beta7 is there now as a GPL release, and we've released updates for the problems we have deemed serious. We make GPL releases for the developer community and to help us test the product. If you choose to uses these releases for other purposes, that's your choice. When (and even whether) we release a "final" GPL image is Mitel's choice. Doing the GPL release takes time, and our commercial priorities always come first. > Adding an expected release date to their reply would be nirvana ;-> > (nir*va*na - An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.) I thought it was a Seattle garage band :-) As you know we have never pre-announced release dates, and we don't intend to change that policy. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/smallbusiness -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
