18 Jul
2007
18 Jul
'07
8:40 p.m.
The mailing has been down since the 16th and it just went up again.
However only new emails are coming in. All emails sent in between
have not been received yet. I have asked the ObjectWeb admin why this
is so. Let's hope they haven't been lost because I also sent quite a
few emails...
Thanks
-Vincent
On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
On 7/18/07, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On Jul 16, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
I found this interesting related to somewhere similar:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Audit
[snip]
Thanks. BTW, i'm having problems with xwiki-dev list(or so it
seems). Was the dev-list quite for past couple of days ? or is it
that we cannot send mails to it ? I'm confused. I sent a mail today
morning but it looks like it still hasn't reached the list. let's
hope this one reaches the destination.
On 7/16/07, Asiri Rathnayake
<asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/16/07, Vincent Massol < vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi Tharindu,
I have done a first pass on the code review and I have a few
comments:
1) You seem to have use Cloudgarden's Jigloo and unfortunately
the license isn't good enough for us so we cannot use it...
Here's what it says in the generated file:
/**
* This code was edited or generated using CloudGarden's Jigloo
SWT/Swing GUI Builder, which is free
* for non-commercial use. If Jigloo is being used commercially
(ie, by a corporation, company or
* business for any purpose whatever) then you should purchase a
license for each developer using
* Jigloo. Please visit www.cloudgarden.com for details. Use of
Jigloo implies acceptance of these
* licensing terms. A COMMERCIAL LICENSE HAS NOT BEEN PURCHASED
FOR THIS MACHINE, SO JIGLOO OR THIS
* CODE CANNOT BE USED LEGALLY FOR ANY CORPORATE OR COMMERCIAL
PURPOSE.
*/
We cannot use Jigloo because we want commercial companies using
XWiki under the LGPL license. Thus we cannot commit this code.
Could you find some alternative? The UI doesn't seem too complex
so I should be easy to do it by hand I think.
I was thinking whether it would be legal (and ethical) if we look
at jigloo generated code and write our own code (without copy and
paste...) ?. I really have this doubt over all open source
software, what if some commercial vendor looks at XWiki code,
rewrite the code, do some feature additions, remove all the
licensing info and claim that it's a new product (which they own) ?
After writing this mail I had second thoughts whether this was a
appropriate question to ask, kind of feeling guilty...
In any case, please apologize me....
Don't feel bad, this is a very relevant and natural question :)
You do have this right of course as there are only so many ways of
implementing UI in Eclipse. However if your code has too many
similarities with the code from igloo they'd have the right to sue
you/us. I think the best is really not to look at that code and
redo that part.