On 26/11/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] did say:
> Confusing as to how you are planning to implement this -> "...we will be
> continuing to develop applications on top of our commercial release and as we
> make changes to GPL components we will release them to the community just as
> any other developer should do." , when you also say -> "This will be the last
> "official" unsupported developer release that we have planned. "
It's quite simple. At the moment, we have no plans to make any
additional unsupported releases after 6.0. Thus, we will not be
providing a cohesive .iso image after 6.0. To honour the GPL, we will
make the source code for our changes to any code licensed under said
GPL, available to the community, in the form of source rpms.
What the community does with those source rpms, is entirely up to
said community, and our obligation with respect to the GPL is satisfied.
> How can you do further development without an up-to-date base ? Or are you
> planning to use some other base of some nature ?
The base we choose for our commercial product is irrelevant here.
> Um, has Mitel decided whether and how any such changes are distributed ? Is
> Mitel planning to forgo ALL support for download availability including any
> "community supported" modifications and other such contributions ? This seems
> quite sketchy. Can someone be more specific with what IS or IS NOT being
> planned for ?
Anything licensed under the GPL will continue to be made available,
including any modifications to that code that we make. That is our only
obligation. Any changes that the community makes should also be made
available, presumably via contribs.org.
Regards,
Mike
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