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

Hello Florian

let me answer this in a new thread
- B

On 22.06.2006, at 10:41, Florian Gnägi wrote:

> 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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> 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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