Posted by
dkey on
Dec 08, 2005; 8:08am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Apache-what-tp136666.html
Sorry,
I just had to chime in on this. I respect Si Chen greatly as well as the
rest of the OFBiz crew and contributors, but why fix something that is not
broken. OFBiz has been making astronomical progress and has some very high
profile users out there and continues along what I think to be a true open
source path. Why on earth would anyone want to throw the proverbial monkey
wrench in the works now by switching license structures to the Apache 2.0?
Would it not be better to continue to progress as we are under the MIT and
concentrate on the framework instead of a license change? Please correct
me if I am clouded in my thinking but it just seems to me that this makes
no sense to convert at this point, after all what is there to gain, some
approval from the ASF? Not needed in my opinion, Andy and David have their
vision and have produced an amazing product and it has propelled OFBiz as
is just fine.
I do not think this will gain anything in the way of contributors at all
as state vaguely in the last post, many people already know about OFBiz,
just look at the companies using it I.E DKNY, ISOTONER etc. the ASF is no
magic bullet and would more than likely cloud up the waters as to how you
could sell and distribute the code, hell why were at it why don't we just
go GPL (not!)
Dale
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