[Incubator] [rasdaman-dev] dual license model clarification

[Peter Baumann]

Jody-

On 08/14/2013 10:18 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I was able to follow the Features page reasonably well, but since the text is 
> describing "company" policy, and I suppose a company product, perhaps it 
> belongs on the company website?

interesting idea. I wanted to have a maximum of transparency, and a minimum of 
links to the commercial site,  moving the feature list would require such a 
link, given the understandable interest of the community: "I have heard about 
this feature, is it community or enterprise?" So I felt this is the most open, 
accessible way of dealing with it.

If moving the feature matrix is requested by mentor and OSGeo, we would do it 
with a corresponding hint, so I am curious about opinions.

>
> I note that balancing a "community edition" vs a "commercial bundle" is fairly 
> difficult. The past couple weeks has seen functionality from OpenGeo Suite 
> <http://opengeo.org/products/suite/buy/> and GeoSolutions 
> <http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it> donated to the community to prevent 
> duplication of effort.

Indeed, this we have done in the past (cf WMS support), and will do so in future 
as well.

>
> If you still get the question a lot, you can always put it in a FAQ and point 
> to the appropriate company page illustrating the difference.

see above, I have concerns - but I may be wrong.

>
> The other thing to consider is when the community creates functionality that 
> is not needed in a commercial bundle. Perhaps it does not meet QA, 
> documentation, or operational standards? Or simply does not solve a problem of 
> interest to your customers.

hm, we gladly accept contributions, but only if the meet QA we have established 
in the open-source project. I would not want to give up what we have achieved in 
terms of quality.
It's also a matter of keeping things simple I believe.

my 2 cents,
Peter


> --
> Jody
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Peter Baumann <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de 
> <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi community,
>
>     as I sensed some sentiments about our dual license model in the recent
>     past I have tried to clarify this by way of the following text at [1]:
>
>     /*Contributions*//to the rasdaman community code come from a worldwide
>     team of collaborators. Notably, a significant extent of the fixes and new
>     functionality is coming from rasdaman GmbH (such as WMS recently). //*All
>     community contributions submitted are made available in rasdaman community
>     immediately after checking them for correctness and coherence (eg, with
>     the code guide); no contribution whatsoever goes into rasdaman enterprise
>     first*//. The only action the company undertakes is to keep both rasdaman
>     variants in sync by merging the rasdaman community tree into rasdaman
>     enterprise, which typically occurs upon release of versions so as to keep
>     both in sync. Aside from that, rasdaman enterprise is developed
>     exclusively by the company and does not contain any community code that
>     rasdaman community does not contain. So rest assured that your valuable
>     contributions are to the benefit of the worldwide user community. /
>
>     Is this understandable? Anything missing?
>
>     All comments are most welcome.
>
>     cheers,
>     Peter
>
>
>     [1] http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features
>
>     -- 
>     Dr. Peter Baumann
>       - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
>         www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann  <http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann>
>         mail:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de  <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>
>         tel:+49-421-200-3178  <tel:%2B49-421-200-3178>, fax:+49-421-200-493178  <tel:%2B49-421-200-493178>
>       - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)
>         www.rasdaman.com  <http://www.rasdaman.com>, mail:baumann at rasdaman.com  <mailto:baumann at rasdaman.com>
>         tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile:+49-173-5837882  <tel:%2B49-173-5837882>
>     "Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata." (mail disclaimer, AD 1083)
>
>
>     -- 
>     You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>     "rasdaman-dev" group.
>     To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>     email to rasdaman-dev+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com
>     <mailto:rasdaman-dev%2Bunsubscribe at googlegroups.com>.
>     To post to this group, send email to rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com
>     <mailto:rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>.
>     Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rasdaman-dev.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Incubator mailing list
> Incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator

-- 
Dr. Peter Baumann
  - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
    www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
    mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
    tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
  - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)
    www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
    tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
"Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata." (mail disclaimer, AD 1083)


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/attachments/20130815/afd4314a/attachment.html>