Adam, Alastair, The WorldPilot Licence was based simply on the wording of the Zope Public Licence (ZPL) at the time of Zope 1.x (1998/1999?). This was done to keep things simple in combination with Zope. Neuberger & Hughes absolutely encourages open source development, so if somebody would like to make changes to worldpilot, but sees the licence as a hindrance, an alternative licence would surely be an option, preferably the GPL, which we use on some other code as well in the mean time (although my understanding is that the GPL includes an Copyright Attribution clause at an appropriate location for code with user interaction, too ;-). Otherwise the current wording of the ZPL would be just as fine with us. WorldPilot was initially developed for Zope 1.x and was based on that version of the Product API. Zope 2.2.x introduced a change that didn't work with the way things work in WorldPilot, although as far we looked into it it seemed to (only) involve the Logoff call, but we didn't have time to delve further into that issue. Currently Neuberger & Hughes has been concentrating it's workgroup development efforts on a new workgroup server framework that goes beyond the requirements of a web based workgroup client, and has support for a much richer data model to provide interoperability capability with existing industry standard Workgroup clients. If somebody would like to adapt WorldPilot to their needs, but needs a different licence as proposed above should get in contact with me. Cheers, Ryan William Hughes
-----Original Message----- From: burt@mastiff.dfki.uni-sb.de [mailto:burt@mastiff.dfki.uni-sb.de]On Behalf Of Alastair Burt Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:48 PM To: zope@zope.org;Ryan Hughes Subject: Re: [Zope] worldpilot
Adam Manock <abmanock@earthlink.net> writes:
At 07:31 PM 6/13/2002 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have installed Worldpilot on Zope 2.5.0 on Linux. Overall, it is pretty much working.
It was designed for Zope 2.1.x, and is supposed to work with 2.2.x You say it pretty much works with 2.5.0??? .. (oops I fell off my chair)
My question is: does anyone know if it will continue to be maintained? If not, is there another product that matches worldpilot's features and nice interface?
I doubt it, unless you want to start a new project picking up where they left off over a year ago. There still seems to be a lot of interest, 150+ downloads a month more than a year after the last release!! :-)
I think the license might be a bit of hindrance. It includes a request for attribution and a stipulation that all modifications be distributed as patches. But as Neuberger & Hughes are no longer developing the program, perhaps they might consider another license.
--- Alastair