Hi, please let me kindly know if this message is inappropriate for this thread. I'm not really familiar with commercial considerations and issues of open source, that's why I'm asking ...
Let's say, a company may need a particular control or component that it does not find in the various JSF component libraries. So it considers asking someone to develop such a control. What about sponsoring the development of such a control, i.e., paying a developer to do develop it as a contribution to some open source component collection (MyFaces, JSF comp, or whatever). Advantage for the company would be that the most talented JSF component developers can be found in the MyFaces community ;-) Here are my questions: * Is this a common model or not? Alternatives? Experiences? Legal issues? Any links or hints to details and real world examples would be appreciated... So far, I've only seen the "large donations scenario" such as Oracle's ADF * Would it be appropriate to "advertise" a developer search for this purpose on this list? * If this is not the appropriate list for such a discussion (well, at least, I'm a user!), where else? I'd also be interesting in whether there are contributions to Tomahawk, the sandbox, or others that have been developed in companies that have no open source business model, but instead a policy such as "if you want to make it open source, do so, as long as it is not our core business you're free to do so" or similar. Frank Felix ffd (at) gmx (dot) net
