About running Wiki on VWNC

[Thomas Bernitt]

Hi

I was on vacation the last weeks and now I tried to find a more concrete
answer and I want to add another yes-no-question:

-If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, and want to
develope additional smallwiki-functionality, do I need to pay or not?

We had talks on the cebit this year with cincom to put this question to them
- and the answer we got was 'yes, you have to pay'. In this case we has to
pay a developer license at great expense.

This topic demands a conclusion!

Thanks

Thomas


> Hi james
> 
> > Hmm, isn't that a contradiction:
> >
> > "If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, then they 
> > would need a license. "
> >
> > and
> >
> > "So, if you put SmallWiki under an Open Source license, you would also 
> > be ok on usage."
> >
> > Let's try simple yes/no questions ;-)
> >
> > - If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal use, do I need 
> > to pay or not?
> >
> > - If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal and external 
> > use as the wiki for an OpenSource project, do I need to pay or not?
> >
> > - If I run Smallwiki on our company server for internal and external 
> > use as the wiki for a commercial project, do I need to pay or not?
> >
> > I hate these kind of questions too and I appreciate your effort in 
> > trying to answer them!
> 
> I want to know too because we are  developing software which is 
> open-source and can be used by companies and I think that the position 
> of cincom should be clear for all of us.
> 
> You wrote: "It really depends.  I explicitly open sourced BottomFeeder, 
> and I'm not making money off it.  So, if you put SmallWiki under an 
> Open Source license, you would also be ok on usage.  It would be 
> unsupported by Cincom, but I suspect that's not really an issue here."
> 
> SmallWiki is open source but I do not understand what is unsupported 
> here?
> 
> Thanks
>