My last post to this thread. Pragmatically, I couldn't care less if Axelor or Tiny are hiding code. What's open so far is remarkably more and higher quality than competitors. And if you care to subscribe to the bazzar commits, will see new enhancements and fixes keep coming every day.
Legally speaking, the editor must abide by the GPL only on contributed code, it poses no restriction whatsoever on the code they have written themselves. Additionally, as a civil right, only the copyright holder - the contributor - may enforce the right. As a user, you can't. Also, as I said, modules that interface or link with GPL do not constitute as modification or derivative work. The understanding is that proprietary modules are, therefore, not a violation of the copyright law, thus the GPL. That's why proprietary video drivers for Linux are legal. And also - surprise! - open source !== free. You can sell GPL software, as long as you provide the source code. So let's take the Axelor webmail, for instance. To claim copyright infringement, you must prove that: 1) it uses contributed code; 2) they only provide a binary version (good luck with that since it's only python+markup+javascript) 3) it can't be considered a module (hardly, since it interfaces with the OpenERP using XML-RPC, like the fat client) 4) they are using YOUR contribution If they made any modification to the core server so the webmail may run, they must contribute it back but only the server modification, not the whole module. But since I doubt any of you have substantial contributions to claim GPL infringement, please stop. Say you don't like. Say it's not fair. Run crying to your mom and say you'll be on hunger strike. But don't embarrass yourselves by using the all-mighty GPL as a bitching argument. -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35345#35345 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
