Hi Charles,
<rant>
Well, speaking of business logic, whatever happened to the 'Process
Manually' feature for renewals that has been promised for oh.. last month?
And yes, I'm all for sharing. I've shared patches for RSP price
calculations on previous version. no problemo. The issue here for me
though, is that I'm fighting the clock to integrate in a payment solution,
because I have no other options. Either build something into the renewal
system or lose clients. Factor into that, that I had to spend over $300
signing up for Signio JUST so I could process renewals. I also not have a
perfectly useless credit card terminal, also around $300.
I believe the issue here for me at least is this. In the past, OpenSrs
has given us a client with the ability to get credit card info
(reg_system.cgi), and to set it up on a pending basis through the manager.
The renewal system really put me out, and I had to scramble to put
something toogether when support finally got back to me that no pending
anything was in the works for renewals.
</rant>
Anyway, I could go on. :-) I guess my expectation for OpenSrs were a
bit too high.
Alex
Charles Daminato writes:
> <personal opinion>
> Well, you *could* do this, but you're missing the point of the intent of the
> GPL.
>
> It's about sharing, and the mutual improvement of all our business LOGIC,
> not our revenue streams.
> </end rant>
>
> Charles Daminato
> Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: February 17, 2001 3:03 PM
> > To: Charles Daminato
> > Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: RENEW.CGI w/ Signio/Verisign integration almost complete.
> >
> >
> > There's a possible way around this. Calling my code externally. For
> > example. I release a patch to renew.cgi that calls my code. You can
> > distribute that patch (or patched code), but not the code that's in a
> > seperate file.. I believe this is doable.. What do you think?
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > Charles Daminato writes:
> >
> > > Gregory is almost correct. You CAN charge for changes you've
> > made to GPL
> > > code, but you MUST (based on the license), include your altered code as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Which means Alex will make $20 from the first person that buys
> > the code, and
> > > that person can post the code to the lists (sorry Alex...).
> > >
> > > The actual clause is:
> > >
> > > For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
> > > gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
> > > you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
> > > source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
> > > rights.
> > >
> > > The GPL is distributed with each copy of the client code :) :) :)
> > >
> > > Now, if Alex wrote everything in a different language (C, C++,
> > Java, PL/1)
> > > he'd be set :)
> > >
> > > Again, sorry Alex :)
> > >
> > > Charles Daminato
> > > Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > > Behalf Of Gregory Neil Shapiro
> > > > Sent: February 16, 2001 2:29 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: RENEW.CGI w/ Signio/Verisign integration almost complete.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > alex> I've hacked up a very functional (and almost complete)
> > > > renew.cgi with
> > > > alex> bits and pieces from reg_system.cgi with Signio/Verisign
> > > > integration.
> > > >
> > > > alex> I'm thinking of selling the patches for this for $20 a pop.
> > > > What say
> > > > alex> you all? Anyone interested?
> > > >
> > > > Sigh, OpenSRS is supposed to be an "open" forum for
> > > > registrations. Selling
> > > > a patch just seems against the whole OpenSRS way of thinking to me. I
> > > > guess I'm just an open source guy at heart.
> > > >
> > > > Although I personally do not like the the GPL, you may not be
> > able to sell
> > > > your patch since your code is based on GPL code. You better check the
> > > > license.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Alexey Zilber
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>
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