Ok....  I've got to follow up on this post...

NonCommercial....you may not use the work in a manner primarily
directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.
So, as I read this, OX may not be installed on a private corp website
by an IT consultant without paying for the full version.

Sounds like a very limited beta program.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Carsten Hoeger
<choeger at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, jonr at destar.net wrote:
>
>> I am trying to figure out which of these versions I want to install but am
>> having a hard time fingering it out.
>>
>> Are Hyperion and Hymalia both GPL or just Hyperion? If so, is there source
>> for both?
>
> Hymalia is the base for the OX5 product, which is in maintenance-only mode
> now.
>
> Hyperion is the successor of Hymalia and the base of our current products (OX
> HE, OX EE) and of course it is also what we call our Community Edition.
>
> Unlike with OX5, almost the complete code is licensed under GPL.
>
>
> The exception, the web gui is licensed under
> Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic.
> That's the same license, that is also used by the http://www.opensource.org/
> homepage.
> The reason for this license is, that we developed this gui together with our
> customers and partners, who did quite some investments into it. Even though
> they payed us to develop the code, we are still able to open the source to the
> public, just with the "limitation" of the CC license, see
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
>
>
> You are free:
>
>      to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
>
>      to Remix — to adapt the work
>
> Under the following conditions:
>
>      Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
>      author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse
>      you or your use of the work).
>
>      Attribute this work:
>      What does "Attribute this work" mean?
>      The page you came from contained embedded licensing metadata, including
>      how the creator wishes to be attributed for re-use. You can use the HTML
>      here to cite the work. Doing so will also include metadata on your page
>      so that others can find the original work as well.
>
>      Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
>
>      Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may
>      distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to
>      this one.
>
>> From what I have read it looks like Hyperion is GPL and scales better than
>> Hymalia.
>
> Exactly.
>
>> My goal is to install everything from source but I only want a fully GPL'ed
>> version.
>
> What is your reason to insist on GPL?
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
>
> Carsten Hoeger
>
> _______________________________________________
> User mailing list
> User at open-xchange.org
> http://www.open-xchange.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/user
>
>



-- 
"Non sibi, sed patriae"