[wplug] What a concept - Open Source Projects Can Be Acquired!

Jonathan Billings jsbillings at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 11:14:03 EDT 2005


On 4/27/05, Burt E Reany <breany at csc.com> wrote:
>    The fear was that they assume that they can add features to their
> proprietary version that will make the open version obsolete, that won't be
> cloned to the open source version. Their hope might be that they figure
> no-one will spend the money to challenge their defiance of the open-source
> clause that specifies that the updated source must be also provided to
> customers.  They might be right.

Maybe the reporter from zdnet has an inside scoop, but the sourceforge
web site for the JasperReports software said that they will continue
to provide an open source solution, and that they just got commercial
support.  There was no mention of changing the licensing.

-- 
  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com



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