On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 19:20, Ned Lilly wrote: > > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: "Jacob Meuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Matt Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:41 PM > Subject: [SL] Re: OpenMFG (was Re: Re: What we would like to see...)
> > I am a partner in a business and my duties involve managing money and > > inventory. I enjoy the opportunity to give back to what was given me > > to help in what I'm doing. I would be both end-user and potential > > contributor and have no use for or to be a VAR. Where would that = > leave > > me? > > Well, to be clear - OpenMFG is paid, licensed software. We've been = > quite clear that it's not OSI-certified, nor do we seek that. So unlike = > SL, or other GPL or other OSI-certified licensed software, it's not = > "given" to anyone. > > To answer your question, if you had purchased the OpenMFG software, you = > would have purchased a source code license that allows you to do = > whatever you want with the code for your own use. At a price that's = > well below that of other mid-range products that are built on top of = > proprietary technology like Microsoft and Oracle. > > But I don't want to turn this into a commercial for OpenMFG. Dieter has = > made it plain that the license issue is a show-stopper for any = > meaningful integration between OpenMFG and SQL-Ledger, and indeed, the = > GPL itself might force that conclusion. So I'll step back out of the = > thread, and wish the SL community the best of luck with all its efforts. I think that "meaningful" can mean different things to different people. :-) Yes, the choice of license might stop there from being a SL-OpenMFG product (unless one party does a dual license on their product). However, what stops someone from creating and distributing patches against SL which hook the two together in a meaningful way? It probably won't happen that Deiter will accept "OpenMFG"-specific patches into SL, unless they are beneficial to SL in a generic sense. He might require copyright assignment, but that's what the FSF does, too, so it isn't that crazy of an idea. rob
