On 26 Jun 2001 09:30:49 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:22, Michael "R." Bernstein wrote:
On 25 Jun 2001 10:26:10 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:
According to management, there's a zope-license list somewhere and we expect to move to a GPL compatible license. Paul says:
"I think the goal should be for Zope and Python to converge on the same license, with perhaps the new license being some off-the-shelf license like Apache's."
Hmm. So a BSD style license, then. Are there currently any Zope-derived distributions that are proprietary (third-party or DC's)?
Absolutely! We use Zope as a core component in our product that's about to "hit the shelves".
I guess the question is whether your product is simply a combined distribution of Zope and a proprietary product, or if you've made changes to Zope itself.
If not, does DC anticipate there being this kind of third-party proprietary derived distribution in the future?
Absolutely! We have several products in mind that are based on Zope.
Again, are these products making proprietary changes to Zope itself, or simply creating proprietary products and other add-ons to Zope?
We will be distributing the entirety of the source code of all open-source components of our product. We cannot distribute the source code of our product - that would be sheer foolishness. We've invested about 2 man-years in the code, and we're not about to just give that away. Our investors would string us up!
Is your product a 'Zope Product'? If so, I think that's perfectly acceptable, and Zope's license should certainly allow such. Perhaps the LGPL for Zope would work. Michael Bernstein.