[Zope] worldpilot

[Ryan William Hughes]

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 
> 
> 
>