Fwd: About running Wiki on VWNC

[stéphane ducasse]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: James Robertson <jarober at comcast.net>
> Date: August 23, 2004 11:12:49 PM CEST
> To: stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: About running Wiki on VWNC
>
> They would need a commercial license if it was for commercial use.
>
> At 01:06 PM 8/23/2004, you wrote:
>
>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "Thomas Bernitt" <thom-ber at gmx.net>
>>> Date: August 23, 2004 9:15:25 AM CEST
>>> To: smallwiki at iam.unibe.ch
>>> Cc: stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
>>> Subject: Re: About running Wiki on VWNC
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>
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