David,
Say I use Financials and CRMSFA, and my staff are using it over the internet.
Does that mean I have to reveal any changes I make to those 2 modules?
If so, that's odd. Or not so odd if OpenTaps was meant to be more commercial
than free.
If this is true, I'll be cutting out both modules from my own application.
TIA for advice.
Jonathon
David E. Jones wrote:
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
