[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch

[Giuseppe Sucameli]

Hi all,

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>wrote:

> > Pirmin what happens if / when QGIS project itself wants to release QGIS
> > Enterprise version - or another company? Maybe it would be better to call
> > it 'Sourcepole GIS' or something to make it clear that it is not an
> > official QGIS product but an official Sourcepole product?
>
> I think a completely different name of a "new" GIS which is "very similar"
> to
> QGIS could be more confusion than one or many QGIS variants.
>

I agree with Pirmin, a product with a completely different name sounds
like a new GIS software.
In addition, not keeping the relation with the QGIS project may damage the
project itself in the long run.

Why do not put the company name in the front, something like
Sourcepole QGIS Cloud/Enterprise?
This makes everything more clear and allows others companies, but mainly
the QGIS project itself, to create its own version.

Just my 2 cents.

> Also (out of curiosity) what is to stop one of your clients cloning the
> > private source tree that you provide and then making that publicly
> > available - or just pushing it back in to the mainstream QGIS tree? i.e.
> do
> > you realise any real long term benefit from keeping the tree private in
> the
> > first place?
>
> We didn't think a lot about publishing our source code branch, yet. So this
> could happen anytime. The question why clients do not publish sources of
> commercial FOSS software is hard to answer. Maybe it's a question of
> loality?
>
> Regards
> Pirmin
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Yves Jacolin (Free)
> <yjacolin at free.fr>wrote:
> > >> My understanding is that it is a commercial service, so you don't have
> > >> any
> > >> licence.
> > >
> > > No.  It's still GPL.
> > >
> > > Any support docs, or training sourcepole provide however are not. Only
> the
> > > QGIS software bit part
> > >
> > > - Nathan
> > >
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