Re: [OSCOM] ANN: Magnolia 3.0 Simple Enterprise Content Management released

Hi Boris

I was wondering how you deal with code contributions from the  
community when you have two different licenses. Does the Visible  
Source License as you called it only apply to addons or to the whole  
enterprise package? Do you ask permission from every code  
contributers to distribute their code snipplets under your commercial  
license?

I mean this as a serious question. I was developing an open source  
learning management system (sometimes also calles learning content  
management system) at university of zuerich and we choose an apache  
style license. Now I'm building up a spinn-off company and we are  
providing commercial services for the e-learning system. We thought  
of creating a commercial version to make money, however in the end we  
found it to complicated to deal with all the community contributions  
we had to integrate in a legal way in to a version that we would  
license under a commercial license.

I'd appreciate some information about how your company deals with  
this issue very much!

Thanks & cheers
Florian

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Florian Gnägi
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JGS goodsolutions GmbH
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On 22.06.2006, at 10:19, Boris Kraft wrote:

> On 21.06.2006, at 22:46, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> I guess that's what confused me, because it seems to me that
>> you announce something (EE) which doesn't exist yet, but maybe I
>> misunderstood
>> your announcement.
>> Also it seems to me that the Magnolia Visible Source
>> license isn't OSI compliant and hence such a product shouldn't be
>> announced on this list, which of course is different for the
>> community edition, but
>> I think this needs to be made very clear.
>
> The announcement clearly states that you can download the free
> community edition, which is open source.
> - Boris
>
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