Hey Martin,

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Kauss wrote:

> i told this some times before: Our approach is no "ideological" one.

But other peoples approach might be ideological, for example the Debian
and Fedora people will not accept anything non Free (no matter if it is
open source or not). Just look at the FDL license "drama".

> We want to offer a fast, rich, usable, extensible and helpful application.

And you do, no question about that.

> If the classpath project (or any other) helps us to come closer to our
> vision and to our objectives we will use such libraries and work
> together with this projects. 

To be honest classpath and co. (cause just classpath is not enough to
make OX run) will make things a lot harder than just using the Sun
libraries. And if I would be Netline I would not want to waste time on
something that has no other advantage than a ideological one.

> You wanted to start on this issue when the
> stable version is out and we had a conversation about this topic some weeks
> ago AFAIR. Let us see what we can achieve together.

I am, I got the RC3 patches almost working with 0.8.2.  The thing is I
would not mind if others would help, but I don't know how to do that.
Open-Xchange.org does not really offer a development community, and when
there is started something like a source forge project it is pretty much
the same as forking. 

So is it possible for the community to enhance OX with GPL code in an
open manner ? This could mean some ppl might add GPLed features that
currently only the commercial version has, which could be "bad" for
Netline. So maybe the question is simply, how will Netline deal with an
active development community that only puts its code under GPL without
assigning copyright to Netline.

MfG,

Erwin