[Vtigercrm-developers] license comments

Pabiszczak, Błażej b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
Sat Apr 5 20:01:11 GMT 2014


Thank you.
Remember, it's not like your whole system, it's just a module.
We finish the translation of the license.


Z poważaniem / Regards
Błażej Pabiszczak
M: +48.884999123
E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl


2014-03-31 1:02 GMT+02:00 Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com>:

>  You have to be careful with this. Although most of the world works on
> "bona fides", not everybody does and you could have problems or pass on
> problems to somebody.
>
> For example, in Europe legislation (and US and probably the majority of
> the planet) if you do not say anything about your license, and do not
> license your creation, by default your intellectual property rights are
> COMPLETE, that means that it is distributed under the most restrictive
> copyright distribution of all; nobody can touch the code.
>
> IANAL, but I would really recommend you do not create yourself a license,
> use one of the many that already exist, they were created by lawyers and
> they know what they are doing (I hope :-) ).  Also consult a lawyer to
> undertand the different licenses out there and pick one that you are
> comfortable with.
>
> Just my opinion
> Joe
> TSolucio
>
>
>
> El 30/03/14 20:27, Pabiszczak, Błażej escribió:
>
> We have no name for the license (just our license), tomorrow I will give
> licenses to translate and you send it in English. We have liberal views :]
>
>  This is my translate :P
>
>  You can do what you want with our module for testing. If You buy, You
>> can do what you want with code (1 license = 1 customer (you can have many
>> servers like test, prod, dev, lab etc.). You can sell our module for Yours
>> clients, but You need pay for every customer and send us info about
>> customer (we create internal license). You must leave information about the
>> author.
>
>
>  The license is lifetime. Free access to update lasts for only a year,
>> after one year, the cost of renovation is 50% of the module.
>
>
>  Z poważaniem / Regards
> Błażej Pabiszczak
> M: +48.884999123
> E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
>
>
> 2014-03-30 20:01 GMT+02:00 <
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>>    1. Re: vtiger CRM 5 Long Time Support :: coreBOS (Joe Bordes)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:01:29 +0200
>> From: Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com>
>> To: vtigercrm-developers at lists.vtigercrm.com
>> Subject: Re: [Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger CRM 5 Long Time Support ::
>>         coreBOS
>> Message-ID: <53385BF9.1060708 at tsolucio.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
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>> Yes, if possible. Just curious...
>>
>>
>> El 30/03/14 19:55, Pabiszczak, B?az.ej escribi?:
>> > Good question :P You wanna name of license (like GPL, VPL, etc)?
>> >
>> > Z powaz.aniem / Regards
>> > B?az.ej Pabiszczak
>> > M: +48.884999123
>> > E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>
>> >
>> >
>> > 2014-03-30 19:44 GMT+02:00 Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com
>> > <mailto:joe at tsolucio.com>>:
>> >
>> >     What license is that?
>> >
>> >     Joe
>> >     TSolucio
>> >
>> >
>> >     El 30/03/14 19:37, Pabiszczak, B?az.ej escribi?:
>> >>     You can do what you want with our module for testing.
>> >>     If You buy, You can do what you want with code (1 license = 1
>> >>     customer (you can have many servers like test, prod, dev, lab
>> etc.).
>> >>     You can sell our module for Yours clients, but You need pay for
>> >>     every customer and send us info about customer (we create
>> >>     internal license).
>> >>
>> >>     Z powaz.aniem / Regards
>> >>     B?az.ej Pabiszczak
>> >>     M: +48.884999123
>> >>     E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     2014-03-30 19:31 GMT+02:00 socialboostdk <socialboostdk at gmail.com
>> >>     <mailto:socialboostdk at gmail.com>>:
>> >>
>> >>         Ok - sounds exciting!
>> >>
>> >>         I of course understands that there is a license-fee, but will
>> >>         it be closed or open source? I use a heavily modified version
>> >>         of vtiger (6) and generally need to be able to modify the
>> >>         modules I use.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         On 30 March 2014 19:25, Pabiszczak, B?az.ej
>> >>         <b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>>
>> >>         wrote:
>> >>
>> >>             We publish 10-15 modules in next week on our site.
>> >>
>> >>             Z powaz.aniem / Regards
>> >>             B?az.ej Pabiszczak
>> >>             M: +48.884999123 <tel:%2B48.884999123>
>> >>             E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl <mailto:
>> b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>             2014-03-29 22:42 GMT+01:00 socialboostdk
>> >>             <socialboostdk at gmail.com <mailto:socialboostdk at gmail.com
>> >>:
>> >>
>> >>                 Hi B?az.ej,
>> >>
>> >>                 Valid points. Are those modules available somehow?
>> >>                 Ie. can they be purchased, and would the license
>> >>                 allow for me to edit the source?
>> >>
>> >>                 OSSMail looks very interesting but I need some other
>> >>                 functionality also, which I could do myself.
>> >>
>> >>                 :) Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>                 On 29 March 2014 18:04, Pabiszczak, B?az.ej
>> >>                 <b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
>> >>                 <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>                     In my opinion you have done wrong. Why?
>> >>
>> >>                       * You use a ten-year architecture (from 6
>> >>                         months is new)
>> >>                       * You create Vtiger fork (it takes a lot of
>> >>                         people and a lot of time, How many
>> >>                         programmers You have (3-5?)? You need 15 and
>> >>                         a lot of money).
>> >>                       * We have OSSMail (like
>> >>                         yours coreBOSMail), which has more options
>> >>                         and is 100% integrated with Vtiger (modifying
>> >>                         only 3 system files in version 6.1 will not
>> >>                         have to modify any).
>> >>                       * LTS is expensive to maintain and slows the
>> >>                         progression! (for large customers we offer
>> >>                         SLAs for versions 5.4).
>> >>
>> >>                     Currently we have 30 working modules for Vtiger
>> >>                     6. Our company began to migrate to version 6 over
>> >>                     9 months ago! We understand your decisions, but
>> >>                     making a mistake that you do this on version 5.4
>> >>                     and not 6.0.
>> >>
>> >>                     And what would happen if our common system was
>> >>                     developed by Team Vtiger (Vtiger 6), and
>> >>                     companies like yours and my (&others), have
>> >>                     joined forces (how will work mail module, if we
>> >>                     built it together with *VTIGER TEAM*)?.
>> >>
>> >>                     *Together, we are able to offer more! Together
>> >>                     with Vtiger Team! Many companies do not
>> >>                     understand how many loses does not work together!*
>> >>
>> >>                     Sorry for my EN :(
>> >>
>> >>                     Z powaz.aniem / Regards
>> >>                     B?az.ej Pabiszczak
>> >>                     M: +48.884999123 <tel:%2B48.884999123>
>> >>                     E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
>> >>                     <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>                     2014-03-29 16:32 GMT+01:00 Joe Bordes
>> >>                     <joe at tsolucio.com <mailto:joe at tsolucio.com>>:
>> >>
>> >>                         Hi,
>> >>
>> >>                         I agree, in major part I am totally with you.
>> >>                         There has been a LOT of debating going on
>> >>                         around here before we took this step.
>> >>                         I understand your programmers (I am one) and
>> >>                         that is fine with me. I encourage you to
>> >>                         continue to support VT6, that is the way to
>> >>                         go. We are catering to the part of community
>> >>                         and users who want to push VT5 a little
>> >>                         further, we want to control our destiny.
>> >>
>> >>                         coreBOS WILL have something special, give us
>> >>                         a little time, we just started :-)
>> >>
>> >>                         Joe
>> >>                         TSolucio
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>                         El 28/03/14 09:24, Pabiszczak, B?az.ej
>> escribi?:
>> >>>                         Hi
>> >>>
>> >>>                         Vtiger 5.4 is old architecture, none of our
>> >>>                         programmer does not want to return to it.
>> >>>                         Does coreBOS have something special?
>> >>>                         On your website, I only see the integration
>> >>>                         of roundcube, the rest of the links do not
>> work.
>> >>>
>> >>>                         Z powaz.aniem / Regards
>> >>>                         B?az.ej Pabiszczak
>> >>>                         M: +48.884999123 <tel:%2B48.884999123>
>> >>>                         E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
>> >>>                         <mailto:b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>                         2014-03-27 17:24 GMT+01:00 Joe Bordes
>> >>>                         <joe at tsolucio.com <mailto:joe at tsolucio.com>>:
>> >>>
>> >>>                             Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>>                             This post is to announce the creation of
>> >>>                             the coreBOS project. coreBOS starts from
>> >>>                             the rich inheritance of vtiger CRM 5.4.
>> >>>                             with intention to give support to the
>> >>>                             big user and developer base for 5.x.
>> >>>
>> >>>                             During the birth of this project the
>> >>>                             first name that was given to it was
>> >>>                             vt5LTS, borrowing the name from Ubuntu,
>> >>>                             that stands for vtiger CRM 5 Long Time
>> >>>                             Support, but we didn't want to conflict
>> >>>                             with vtiger name branding nor create
>> >>>                             conflict in any way in the developer and
>> >>>                             user community. Also we understand that
>> >>>                             we will quickly drift away from vtiger
>> >>>                             CRM line of action and be something
>> >>>                             else, so we thought that the name didn't
>> >>>                             make justice to all the potential we see
>> >>>                             in the project and where we want to take
>> >>>                             it. We saw a near future where coreBOS
>> >>>                             would have it's own merits and reasons
>> >>>                             to stand tall for it's own right so we
>> >>>                             gave it a name and started our adventure.
>> >>>
>> >>>                             We aren't creating this project out of
>> >>>                             disrespect or spite, we do not have a
>> >>>                             bad relation with the vtiger company nor
>> >>>                             with the community, we plan to keep
>> >>>                             investing time in vtiger CRM 6 and
>> >>>                             future releases, although it will be
>> >>>                             less than what we have done for the 5.x
>> >>>                             branch.
>> >>>
>> >>>                             In fact I have to admit that I like a
>> >>>                             lot of things I see in vtiger CRM 6 and
>> >>>                             will most probably downgrade some of
>> >>>                             them, I think vtiger is going down the
>> >>>                             right track with VT6 and with the change
>> >>>                             in community support of the past weeks
>> >>>                             (incredible!!).
>> >>>
>> >>>                             For more information, please come to
>> >>>                             http://corebos.tsolucio.com/
>> >>>
>> >>>                             We invite you to join us :-)
>> >>>
>> >>>                             Thank you,
>> >>>                             Joe
>> >>>                             TSolucio
>> >>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> >>>
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>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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