Hello Pedro, Tomorrow, an entity can pay you to develop further OpenJUMP. You have the right to do it, so I don't see why Sunburned could not have this right. Of course, the GPL license must be respected, and this must be totally clear for customers who ask for Sunburned's (or other's) services. Every developper is free to anounce himself for professional support on the OJ website. He is also free to announce himself on another website for the same job.
Discussing recently with some professional working in public funded organizations (Switzerland), I could realize that many of them are looking for good OS GIS to replace their costly GIS softs. OpenJUMP is a good candidate, but for the moment the real problem is the support and the strength of the developper team. Since the beginning of our work, this has been the problem: there is a nice team on the boat, but few of us have time to really do development for improving OJ. This would be fantastic if persons like Sunburned (or other) could be payed by public funded entities to further develop OJ. Everybody would benefit it. We look at the problem as it is a "money" problem. This is rather a "coordination" and "resource" problem. In any case public funded organizations have to pay, therefore they have the money. The question arises WHO they want to pay. More and more, they are more opened to pay private developers to improve an open source soft than paying licenses of a closed GIS system. I hope that very soon the OJ software will benefit from funding to further be developed, independently of who is doing the development. Best regards, Steve ----Message d'origine---- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03.11.2006 00:22 À: "List for discussion of JPP development and use."<jump-pilot- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Objet: Re: [JPP-Devel] [jump-users] RE: Commercial Support For OpenJUMP Hei Pedro, > I must be missing something here or I'm just too simple-minded but > GPL, clause 2, paragraph b) states: > " b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole > or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to > be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of > this License." actually this is the clou on the GPL.. It says you must provide it for free. But it does not mean the opposite: which is, that you are not allowed to sell the software. So it is realy like Paul said: he can sell it in silver boxes for 4000$£ -- but if somebody asks he needs to provide him an accessible version (on a web server). So you can see it from two positions: either the customer is "stupid" if paying 4000$ for the CD envelope and the CD; or he gets additional support for the 4000 something. good night stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
