All that has happened in the past 60 hours or so including the results have show that Mayan EDMS the code, and Mayan EDMS the project, have broken through any initial expectations of growth, market penetration, acceptance or any idea I or anyone else may have had from the day it was started or the day it was released one and a half years ago. I also think this is an important pivotal point and the good time to make changes if there is the need for them to ensure the continued growth and future of the project.
I value everyone's opinion and take them into account and the people in this mailing list are the oldest supporters of the project so your opinions are specially important and helpful during this process as have been since the beginning of the project itself. I would like everyone to chime in if they can on the following topics (or any other you want to bring out): - Should Mayan EDMS be licensed under another Open Source license (BSD, MIT, Apache, other)? A non Free license? - Should it remain Free Software or move to a full commercial product. - Should a new specific license be crafted for it (ie: Mayan EDMS Shared Source License or something like that) - Should the development branch remain open, closed, or shared on a case by case basis? - Should the release strategy remain the same or should there be a deferred model of a commercial release and have that same version become the latest Free Open Source version a period after that (6 month a a year?) to benefit both commercial and non-commercial users? Another completely different release strategy? - Should there continue to be only one version of the Source Code or should there be a commercial and a community version? - Should there be a completely different release strategy? - Is the current release cycle adequate? Or Too slow? Too fast? - Should a non profit foundation be established and all or some control be transferred to it? Should copyrights be transferred too? - Is the software/project transparent enough or too much? - Is the new licensing plan proposed (GPL, Redistribution, Commercial and Developer) adequate, too complicated or too limited? """ - ** GPL ** – You can install *Mayan EDMS* as is, but can sell your services for *Mayan EDMS*, you must provide the source code or directions where to get the source code to your clients, modifications to the source code must be made public. - ** Redistribution ** - You can sell *Mayan EDMS* as well as your services, you can modify *Mayan EDMS* adding new features or changing the name and you can keep your changes closed. - ** Commercial ** – Same as *GPL* but includes email and telephone support for a number of hours per month. - ** Developer ** – Allows you to use *Mayan EDMS* to create a new product using all or parts of the source code and allows you to sell your new product independently. - """ Any other topic regarding but not limited to code hosting (github, etc), the current website hosting, website design or anything else is also most welcomed. Feel free to post or to continue emailing me in private as most have done, any method is perfectly fine. Thank you very much, --Robert --
