23 Aug
2004
23 Aug
'04
9:15 a.m.
Hi
I was on vacation the last weeks and now I tried to find a more concrete
answer and I want to add another yes-no-question:
-If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, and want to
develope additional smallwiki-functionality, do I need to pay or not?
We had talks on the cebit this year with cincom to put this question to them
- and the answer we got was 'yes, you have to pay'. In this case we has to
pay a developer license at great expense.
This topic demands a conclusion!
Thanks
Thomas
Hi james
Hmm, isn't that a contradiction:
"If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, then they
would need a license. "
and
"So, if you put SmallWiki under an Open Source license, you would also
be ok on usage."
Let's try simple yes/no questions ;-)
- If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal use, do I need
to pay or not?
- If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal and external
use as the wiki for an OpenSource project, do I need to pay or not?
- If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal and external
use as the wiki for a commercial project, do I need to pay or not?
I hate these kind of questions too and I appreciate your effort in
trying to answer them!
I want to know too because we are developing software which is
open-source and can be used by companies and I think that the position
of cincom should be clear for all of us.
You wrote: "It really depends. I explicitly open sourced BottomFeeder,
and I'm not making money off it. So, if you put SmallWiki under an
Open Source license, you would also be ok on usage. It would be
unsupported by Cincom, but I suspect that's not really an issue here."
SmallWiki is open source but I do not understand what is unsupported
here?
Thanks