groupware for Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 21 12:34:10 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:44 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Erwin Rol writes:
> >  > Hey all,
> >  > 
> >  > A while back i wrote that i was trying to get Open-Xchange working on
> >  > Fedora (meaning no Sun Java stuff). Since the Open-Xchange authors
> >  > decided that all non-source code (all source code is GPL) will fall
> >  > under the CC-Non-commercial license, it will be impossible to include
> >  > Open-Xchange in Fedora (or Debian, or any Free distribution).
> > 
> > Out of interest, did you get it to work?
> 
> With some seriously ugly hacks i got it to compile and run, of course
> still a lot of bugs but when it would be a real community project (no
> copyright assignments, and no CC-non-commercial license) I think it can
> be made to work with gcj.

Many community projects including all of the GNU ones require copyright
assignments. That is on many occasions a good practice. 

Rahul




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