On Wednesday 26 November 2003 09:42 pm, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 26/11/03 [email protected] did say:
> > Confusing as to how you are planning to implement this -> "...we will be
> > continuing to develop applications on top of our commercial release and
> > as we make changes to GPL components we will release them to the
> > community just as any other developer should do." , when you also say ->
> > "This will be the last "official" unsupported developer release that we
> > have planned. "
>
> It's quite simple. At the moment, we have no plans to make any
> additional unsupported releases after 6.0. Thus, we will not be
> providing a cohesive .iso image after 6.0. To honour the GPL, we will
> make the source code for our changes to any code licensed under said
> GPL, available to the community, in the form of source rpms.
> What the community does with those source rpms, is entirely up to
> said community, and our obligation with respect to the GPL is satisfied.
>
> > How can you do further development without an up-to-date base ? Or are
> > you planning to use some other base of some nature ?
>
> The base we choose for our commercial product is irrelevant here.
>
> > Um, has Mitel decided whether and how any such changes are distributed ?
> > Is Mitel planning to forgo ALL support for download availability
> > including any "community supported" modifications and other such
> > contributions ? This seems quite sketchy. Can someone be more specific
> > with what IS or IS NOT being planned for ?
>
> Anything licensed under the GPL will continue to be made available,
> including any modifications to that code that we make. That is our only
> obligation. Any changes that the community makes should also be made
> available, presumably via contribs.org.
O.k......good enough as far as it goes and thanxs for taking the time to
answer. I am still curious as to where you plan on doing this.
Best regards;
Bob FInch
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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