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 newcode 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 andDebian.
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
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