While everyone is helping sourcepole rename their software, here is my 2 cents
"Enterprise QGIS by Sourcepole" On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Chris Berkhout <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm happy for companies to do whatever they want (and are allowed) to do. > > As for the QGIS project having a stable branch, I think it's treating the > symptoms rather than the cause. I'd much rather see the effort that that > might consume be put into making the main branch more stable. With a strong > test suite regressions can become very rare, even with constant development > of new features. > > I'm fairly new to QGIS, so I can't speak with a full understanding of the > current situation. I just wanted to share my hopes for the future of the > project. > > Cheers, > Chris > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Werner Macho <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> My suggestion to solve that kind of problems would be to just have a >> >> "something"|..... based on QGIS >> >> but I appreciate the appearance of the enterprise QGIS and hope that >> it will QGIS itself some push to be more known by companies .. >> >> regards >> Werner >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Giuseppe Sucameli >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Pirmin Kalberer <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> > Pirmin what happens if / when QGIS project itself wants to release >> QGIS >> >> > Enterprise version - or another company? Maybe it would be better to >> >> > call >> >> > it 'Sourcepole GIS' or something to make it clear that it is not an >> >> > official QGIS product but an official Sourcepole product? >> >> >> >> I think a completely different name of a "new" GIS which is "very >> similar" >> >> to >> >> QGIS could be more confusion than one or many QGIS variants. >> > >> > >> > I agree with Pirmin, a product with a completely different name sounds >> > like a new GIS software. >> > In addition, not keeping the relation with the QGIS project may damage >> the >> > project itself in the long run. >> > >> > Why do not put the company name in the front, something like >> > Sourcepole QGIS Cloud/Enterprise? >> > This makes everything more clear and allows others companies, but mainly >> > the QGIS project itself, to create its own version. >> > >> > Just my 2 cents. >> > >> >> > Also (out of curiosity) what is to stop one of your clients cloning >> the >> >> > private source tree that you provide and then making that publicly >> >> > available - or just pushing it back in to the mainstream QGIS tree? >> i.e. >> >> > do >> >> > you realise any real long term benefit from keeping the tree private >> in >> >> > the >> >> > first place? >> >> >> >> We didn't think a lot about publishing our source code branch, yet. So >> >> this >> >> could happen anytime. The question why clients do not publish sources >> of >> >> commercial FOSS software is hard to answer. Maybe it's a question of >> >> loality? >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Pirmin >> >> >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Yves Jacolin (Free) >> >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > >> My understanding is that it is a commercial service, so you don't >> >> > >> have >> >> > >> any >> >> > >> licence. >> >> > > >> >> > > No. It's still GPL. >> >> > > >> >> > > Any support docs, or training sourcepole provide however are not. >> Only >> >> > > the >> >> > > QGIS software bit part >> >> > > >> >> > > - Nathan >> >> > > >> >> > > _______________________________________________ >> >> > > Qgis-user mailing list >> >> > > [email protected] >> >> > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> -- >> >> Pirmin Kalberer >> >> Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions >> >> http://www.sourcepole.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Giuseppe Sucameli >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Qgis-developer mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > -- Dr Wesley Roberts [email protected] Cell: +27(0)83 5355 646 skype: roberts-w
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