That is very old, and a lot has changed since then, including what happened to this code base. All of the lower level stuff including the data structures and GL posting services are part of OFBiz, but the higher level things such as reports and automated posting mapping services (from things like invoices, payments, inventory changes, etc) are all part of the HPL licensed financials component from Open Source Strategies, part of the opentaps distribution (semi-fork these days, lots of stuff implemented that doesn't go back into OFBiz).
For more information you should see their site at opensourcestrategies.com. The HPL (Honest Public License) is a not an OSI approved license and has some rather unpleasant terms in it, the goal being to force contributions or purchase of a commercial license (just like pretty much all "open source" companies that dual license, usually with GPL though). The main thing with HPL is that if you make it available over the internet it explicitly states that this is public distribution of the software (for more details see the license itself).
In any case, that is why you're seeing discussion of implementing these things even though there is an OFBiz add-on that has them, and hence all of the references to another project that is licensed in terms that make it hard to build a community around, and that can't be included with OFBiz, etc.
-David On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Jim Barrows wrote:
So what is the status? Do we have to pay for it? Is it done? i would think that in 2 years it would've gotten done by now. On Nov 20, 2007 4:48 PM, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Here is and update from couple of years ago. previously there was discussion about the frame work of this. if I did all these out, is there a place on the documentation site we can put them to save a lot of re discussion. David E. Jones sent the following on 9/23/2005 4:16 PM:Update: Accounting/GL Now in Beta TestingThe Open For Business Accounting and General Ledger (GL) application is now moving into beta testing. Currently, it can support the accountingneeds of most product-retail businesses that use Open For Business, including: * Support for multiple organizations and multiple currencies * Setting up chart of accounts with unlimited depth * General Ledger posting for most key business processes* Financial reports including trial balance, income statements, andbalance sheets * Screens to create and manage both Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) invoices and payments* Screens for managing tax liabilities across multiple jurisdictions* Administrative features such as periodic closings* Flexible entry and maintenance of payments and invoice (includingapplication payments to invoices, etc)* Export to outside accounting applications (QBXML for QuickBooks isincluded)This application is fully integrated with the rest of OFBiz, including ecommerce, Point Of Sales, order manager, and facilities manager. It drops into your hot-deploy/ directory and runs right away. If you need other accounting-related features, such as payroll, it is fairly easyto develop a plug in for it. If you would like to learn more about the GL application, there is a video from the St. Louis Users' Conference (http://www.ofbiz.org/VideosConf.html) and an online demo (http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/demos.php). How to Make it Open SourceThe Accounting and General Ledger is developed under a community funding model. The idea is to get community funding to help cover the cost of developing a large, complex application. We think this is a very fairuser-driven model because it can produce open source software witheither a large number of small contributors or a small number of larger contributors. As an added incentive, those who contribute over $3,000 can begin to use the application immediately and benefit from all itsfeatures for a fraction of the cost of in-house development. We've currently received sponsorship for about half the development costs ($26,000 out of about $50,000) and require another $24,000 toreach our goal and release it under an open source license. This means that we can get there with just eight user-contributors with $3,000 eachor, alternatively, a hundred contributors of under $250 each. -Si Chen -David E. JonesP.S. Special thanks to all who have contributed labor and funds to thiseffort, including: Open Source Strategies, Undersun Consulting, Ant Websystems, Masterfile Corp, and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users-- James A Barrows
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