Hi, please do not get me wrong, but this is a bit confusing to me. Let's suppose someone have developed a module (suppose that the module is fairly complicated, not just a redesign of some forms or addition of couple of fields to an existing modules) for OpenERP, which is licensed under GPL(2), is he an OpenERP's (as I understand that this trademark is also licensed under GPL2) partner or no?
The next confusing thing, in the Partner's program description files is mentioned that "partner" who writes an article or publishes a module is more valuable than who buys a Gold package. There is also mentioned that for publishing a module there is "reward" in activity units (300/SLOC ??!!), are they awarded to the partners that have been paid at least the 1950EUR or any other one? If we look at the above, it would be normal that a company that develops modules or get involved in a project, gets listed as a partner in "OpenERP.com". If not, it means that Tiny sprl is selling trademark that is licensed under GPL2, or am I getting something wrong. So it means that one can write that he is a partner of OpenERP because he is developing a GPL'd modules consequently improving GPL'd software? What is being bought and sold under this program? Visibility on community's website, training, leads? Is amount of visibility somewhere defined? As to visibility, as I understand that only partners get opportunity to announce their activity on Planet (to be more specific it's being gathered from their websites), or anybody else can "post". If only "paid partners" can post and get mentioned to the website why then improve the whole software and provide modules for free? One part of process of getting familiar with OpenERP, for me, included investigation the world for what is happening around the world regarding OpenERP. There are numerous "paid partners" that gets mentioned on this site, but only few of them have released at least a single module. There are even more "non partners" that are providing services to clients and selling modules on their own, which are proprietary. There are more or less complete translations on languages that are not available to the general public, so are the modules and localizations. Why publish modules under GPL2 on the OpenERP.com website when most people does not? Why post and contribute to wiki if there is visibility for the paid partner's, who by the most have done nothing to get this software more mature and open. This one became pretty long monologue, but I could not make it shorter :) So have a nice evening, sraps -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25881#25881 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
