Erwin Rol wrote:
> Noncommercial especially is a bit of a potential nightmare
because
> 'commercial' is not properly defined.
Well I had a "mega" discussion on the Open-Xchange list
with the Netline
people (the "owner" of Open-Xchange) and someone working on Debian
packages. The result of that discussion seems to be it is the CC
"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5” and stays that way. A second
smaller problem was/is that Netline wants a copyright assignment for new
code so they can use it in their commercial version.
Hum obviously no coincidence that they want to offer it commercially
themselves and insist that the 'free' version is under noncommercial
terms then, and the assignment is to guarantee they are in a position to
enforce the situation. They can do what they like, but such a system
AND inviting external patches you demand copyright assignments for is
like being a little bit pregnant.
At the moment there are only two people "complaining" about
the license,
maybe they are willing to listen if more people politely ask to put the
CC parts under a license that is acceptable for inclusion in Fedora and
Debian.
The discussion seems to exist here:
http://www.open-xchange.org/pipermail/general/2006-May/thread.html
It seems the key question starts here:
http://www.open-xchange.org/pipermail/general/2006-May/048756.html
-Andy