Re: License question

[Erwin Rol <mailinglists erwinrol com>]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:19 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:59:29PM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> 
> > In the case of Open-Xchange we are talking about ~3.5MB of pictures and
> > HTML code, which is tightly coupled to java backend code (that is
> > GPLed). So rewriting the frontend is just a waste of time and writing a
> > new groupware would probably be faster (especially since there still has
> > to be done a lot of work to make it compile with GCJ).
> 
> Referring to "writing a new groupware": what about putting the work
> in getting OpenGroupware.org suitable for Fedora?  AFAIK OGo is
> licensed as GPL (and partly as LGPL).  Unfortunately, OGo is w.r.t.
> packaging a real mess (last time I looked I saw that binary packages
> existed that had no source packages).

That is pretty much just a matter of taste, I really like the look and
feel of Open-Xchange, especially the webmail part (which i dislike in
OGo). But if it is really impossible to add Open-Xchange than, yes I
will rather spend my time on OGo.

- Erwin