Re: Questions about the future of ofbiz

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:07:57 -0700
The trick is that the GPL is not clear on whether or not making an application available over the internet constitutes distribution... 


Of course, the OSS/opentaps financials and crmsfa modules are not GPL  
licensed, they are HPL licensed which explicitly states that making  
them available over the internet DOES constitute distribution. This  
gets to be a pain because the configurations and everything are HPL  
licensed, so if you don't want to reveal your business setup, you  
should buy a license.



Actually it's more complicated than that... Technically Open Source  
Strategies has a signed contract to license the financials module at  
least under the GPL license because of the history of the early  
development of it, so they shouldn't be distributing it under the HPL  
license. We haven't pushed them on that, but that is in a real legal  
document. The crmsfa one on the other hand is not so encumbered.


-David


On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:


Scott,


That license only requires you to deliver your private source codes  
if you:


1. Change original codes licensed under GPL

2. Distribute/sell the new package.


Say you enhance OpenTaps for your own use, and you call the new  
package MyOwnApp. If you only ever use MyOwnApp in your own  
computers, and never distribute/sell MyOwnApp, you will never have  
to release the source codes in MyOwnApp.


Somebody correct me if I'm wrong?

Jonathon

Scott A wrote:

I've looked at Opentaps and agree that it would be a good start  
and it is in
fact how I got to ofbiz originally but I would like to see it in  
the core of
ofbiz. As I understand it at the moment, opentaps is distributed  
with a totally
different license and while I don't know all of the legal  
ramifications, I
am told by the people that I trust most that it would be a mistake  
for me to
start developing industry specific extensions based on that  
license. While I am am not opposed to sharing enhancements and  
giving back to the
community, my industry specific mods are going to be for me only.  
I hope you

understand.
Walter Vaughan wrote:

Scott A wrote:


David,


Like I said, I am a user plain and simple so I can’t get into  
all of the
technical side of things. All I know is that I would like a CRM  
portion

of

ofbiz similar to how Sugar CRM works but with a good and solid  
email

client

built in. I guess it would take someone with the interest and  
technical

ability to put the requirements together first.


That said, I can only contribute with my wants and needs and  
some cash.

I'd

be willing to throw $1000 into the hat to get this type of  
functionality.


Where do I go from here?

Have you looked at the Opentaps CRM-SFA modules for ofBiz?
https://demo.opensourcestrategies.com:8445/crmsfa/control/login

It's fully integrated with ofBiz and has a Ajax style email client.


Maybe what you need is already available. If it's not, I'd like  
to hear

what you need that I may not have already considered.

--
Walter









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