Re: Swordfish CMS?

Hi Mark,

Thanks for clarifying.  Indeed, sounds like there are no GPL issues here, it's great to see folks creating hosted value-added services based on Plone!

:Jon

On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Mark van Lent <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> On 09/09/2011 04:25 PM, Balazs Ree wrote:
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>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
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>>> Hi Jean!
>>> 
>>> Interesting question, this hasn't come up before.  Let me dig around a bit.
>> 
>> My 2 cents: as long as they only provide websites that are implemented on top of a Plone derivate, they are not obliged to share any code, according to GPL2. When they distribute the SwordFish itself, then they will be obliged to give a pointer to the full source code, according to GPL2.
>> 
>> So I guess the question is: Is there a website where one can download a SwordFish from? Alternately, is there a way to "buy" Swordfish to implement your own site? If yes then we have distribution and there must be a source as well.
> 
> Although I cannot view the pages you are referring to, I can provide 
> more information about SwordFish.
> 
> We, Edition1, are producing the SwordFish CMS. We do not sell the 
> product and you cannot download it. We sell license for the *use* of the 
> software but do not distribute it. We provide it as a service and only 
> run the software on our own servers.
> 
> The SwordFish CMS is a package that consists of Plone hosting, a UI, 
> extra functionality (compared to a default Plone site), a theme for the 
> customer, training and support.
> 
> As far a we are aware of, our use of Plone does not violate the GPL 
> since we don't distribute it.
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> 
> By the way, the link should probably become 
> http://plone.org/support/sites/www.swordfish.nl instead of 
> http://plone.org/support/sites/www.swordfsh.nl (note the "i" in fish).
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> Sincerely,
> 
> Mark van Lent
> technical consultant
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