Re: [OSCOM] are the collaborative licenses approved by OSI?

Stéphane Croisier wrote:

>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Jahia never claims to be OSI compliant.


ok

> We even launch a new association to promote what we call "fair source 
> license" (=enforcing a strong quid pro quo paradigm) and also launch a 
> new web site to avoid confusion: www.collaborativesource.org
> <http://www.collaborativesource.org/>


interesting. Just being curious, what is your experience with the 
collaborative source license so far?

>
> <http://www.collaborativesource.org/>What's funny is that you can 
> perfectly use a dual license GPL-Commercial (e.g. eZPublish) in OSCOM 
> with all the limitations it creates but not a collaborative source 
> license which globally is following the same philosophy/business model 
> (sorry I do not like the dual license thing, this creates too much 
> confusion for the end-customers but that's my point of view, I totally 
> agree ;-) )


to be honest I never thought about it and I am glad you are mentioning it
and it should definitely be discussed here

> ... So no problem for me (and even if I had a problem with it, this 
> wouldnt have change anything, no? ;-) ) to remove Jahia from your list 
> if you want to focus the association on 100% OSI compliant products only.


I think it's important to note what is OSI certified and what isn't
and quite probably remove projects which aren't using OSI certified 
licenses,
because Open Source should have a definition and the meaning should be 
clarified

>
> BTW: you may also add Apache Jackrabbit in the matrix


yes, should have done this quite some time ago ;-)

I was told that Jahia contributed an "SQL-implementation" to Jackrabbit, 
right?

Michi

>
> Cheers,
> Stéphane
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Stéphane Croisier <scroisier-QHyKyf/[email protected]>
> CEO
> Jahia Ltd, 45 rue de la gare, 1260 Nyon (Switzerland)
> Jahia : The Collaborative CMS and Corporate Portal Solution
> _ http://www.jahia.com <http://www.jahia.com/>_ (commercial web site)
> _ http://www.jahia.org <http://www.jahia.org/>_ (collaborative web site)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> At 17:25 26.02.2005, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if the collaborative licenses are approved by the OSI?
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> http://www.jahia.org/jahia/page145.html
>>
>> it doesn't seem to be listed here
>>
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses
>>
>> or does it comply with
>>
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mitrepl.php
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michi
>>
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