--- Martin Kauss <bishoph at open-xchange.org> wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2006 03:31 PM, Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> simple questions should be answered simple. We have a concept for
> this issue since the beginning. If you take a deeper look to our
> contribution model it should be clear:
> 
> http://www.open-xchange.org/oxwiki/contrib_2fSubversionStructure
> 
> New code for the core engine can be submitted, but we will build
> it only into the core if we get a copyright assignment.
> This is nothing unusual. OpenOffice and MySQL are dealing the same
> way with the community. 
> 
> For smaller projects and special interest communities we are offering
> space and repositories in our "Eve" and "OXtension" SVN. And in this
> areas you and others are invited to provide code under whatever
> license
> (of course you should take care about the law anyway) and you do not
> have to deal with copyright issues. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin Kauss

Hi Martin,
The concept is great, but it does not seem to work until the community
does not have read acess to the current source. 
The CVS is outdated:
http://www.open-xchange.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/openexchange/

Eve and OXTension repositories needs registration even for read access.

MySQL (http://mysql.bkbits.net:8080/mysql-5.2) and OOo
(http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_source.html) gives read
access to the source.

I don't think that developers could collaborate if the don't not work
on the same updated source tree.

Cheers,
Balint


		
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