[Vtigercrm-developers] Licensing discussion: WAS [Re: Vtiger 7 Features (preliminary list) (B?a?ej Pabiszczak)]

[Sreenivas Kanumuru]

Błażej, thank you for the suggestions

Re CLA: We'll review it. I agree it is good idea to add this on
code.vtiger.com page.

Re Maps: We need some time to review OpenStreetMaps integration and see if
we can bring it to the Vtiger OS.

Re Zip: The only reason to keep the libraries in zip files, as far as i
know, is to reduce the download size. Please share the names of the zip
files that are bothering you.

Re Travis CI: I am not quite familiar with this. I'll request Prasad to
lend his thoughts on this.

thank you,
Sreenivas

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Błażej Pabiszczak <
b.pabiszczak at yetiforce.com> wrote:

> @Sreenivas
>
> 1. If a programmer sends you code under any license [eg. VPL] then it in
> no way whatsoever protects you from theft that this person could’ve
> committed. This is what CLA is for, so that the programmer takes the
> responsibility, not you. I recommend you read: https://www.clahub.com/
> pages/why_cla
>
> 2. Showing a single point on the map has no business value, it looks nice
> but it doesn’t really do anything. You can do it right, especially that
> it’s already finished in our system, all you got to do it move it to your
> system [took us 5 days to build the map from scratch, moving it should be
> max 2 days]. You’ll get:
>
>    - OpenStreetMap integration
>    - Loading any points [accounts, contacts, vendors] – loading works at
>    the records list level
>    - Ability to group objects on the map
>    - Ability to calculate routes between objects
>    - Ability to color by attributes [eg. branch]
>    - Ability to search within radius
>
> 3. Why do you still keep ZIP files in your project? It’s a pain to manage
> them… This was the first thing we got rid of when we created our fork.
>
> 4. Connect GIT with TravisCI or some other mechanism used for unit tests,
> because this is how a programmer knows whether or not his change broke
> anything in the system.
> ---
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>
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> *Chief Executive Officer*
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> W dniu 2016-10-28 14:50, Sreenivas Kanumuru napisał(a):
>
>
> Alan,
>
> If a developer has contributed a merge request on code.vtiger.com to
> Vtiger project, then the code will carry the same VPL license (Mozilla
> license) as the project. If a developer doesn't want to license the
> contribution under VPL license, then we may not include the contribution.
>
> Google Maps is loosely coupled, with a popup showing the location of the
> contact/org on the map. Instead of a popup, if we show the same in a new
> window by directly taking the user to maps.google.com then the license
> would not be required. We will make this change in V7 version.
>
> thank you,
> Sreenivas
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28/10/16 09:23, Błażej wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, Vtiger keeps ignoring the license conditions. For
>>> example:
>>>
>>>   * Integration with Google Maps without the free license from Google
>>>     [which means that everyone who downloads Vtiger should purchase
>>>     Google license which is very expensive]
>>
>>
>> +1 for breaching Google Maps' license terms. I have raised this many
>> times myself.
>>
>>   * Includes files under the GPL license.
>>
>>
>> I just grepped the source and was not able to find a GPL license
>> header... Do you have an example? I found plenty of dual licensed code, MIT
>> & GPL, BSD & LGPL, which are fine and also some LGPL which should also be
>> fine.
>>
>>   * Doesn't require CLA for the changes uploaded by community [which is
>>>     dangerous, mostly for Vtiger itself].
>>
>>
>> Interesting thought.
>>
>> Al
>>
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