Hi Florin, I think the following link shows clearly how you can use various open source licenses.
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html enjoy --- Florin Jurcovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > IMO that's not necessarily the best wasy to go - although I respect > your > freedom of choice. > > Why do I thik otherwise? Since the HPL is a modified GPL that only > requires openness more precisely than the GPL - I could not see any > restriction in a spirit different than that of the GPL. So no matter > if > you go with ofbiz core or with opentaps, IMO you are bound to > essentially > the same contract. If you later on decide to develop and market a > product > based on ofbiz or opentaps, and keep it closed-source, you're stuck, > no > matter if you built your custom, marketable solution on opentaps or > ofbiz. > If later on you decide to publish your custom solution as open-source > > additions to ofbiz - or opentaps - you're essentially going to do it > the > same way for both of them. > > There is another license, which allows you to build a custom solution > > based on open source: LGPL. However, neither ofbiz core nor opentaps > are > licensed under its terms. As such, you have to either keep your > custom > solution closed source and use it only internally, or you have to > publish > it as open source. So essentially there is no way you could make > money > from selling licenses of stuff built on top of either ofbiz or > opentaps. > > The only thing you' achieve by duplicating the functionality > available in > opentaps and not available in ofbiz is duplication of effort, IMO. At > > least that's my understanding. > > Please, anybody, if my understanding of the licensing problems is > buggy, > correct me. The licensing issues are important for me too. > > br, > > -- > Florin Jurcovici > ------------------ > Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? > > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:53:28 +0300, Scott A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I guess this thread really illustrates the confusion that I had > > originally. I > > didnt want to start any problems but I just want the ability to do > > > whatever > > I want with the software that I help to develop. Who knows where > the > > future > > leads and what we may or may not do with the software down the > road. It's > > especially true for speciality operations that need to do much > > customization. You might find in 5 years time that your software is > worth > > more than your product... That would be a real bad time to find out > that > > the > > license was different from what you had thought. > > > > I'm just going to stick with the core of ofbiz and over time I'll > build > > the > > extra functionality that I want and need. > > > > >
