Gentlemen,
I have sent a note to the FSF as follows:
"Dear sir,
I am writing this note on behalf of the Adampiere project council.
In a nutshell Adampiere has been created from the Compiere community that has expressed disatissfaction with the direction that the project has been taking and that we considered has moved it away from the original objectives of the project. You will find a history of the discussions we sustained as part of the creation of the Adampiere project here:
http://red1.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=931
We intend to use the latest source delivered to the Compiere community back in April, 2006 in order to create a stable, enhanced product that lives upto the standards and philosophy of the open source world. This source is distributed with an OSI certified license attached in this note for your perusal.
Your advise would be very much appreciated to answer the following questions:
1. Does the larger work to be developed by the community have to be released using the CPL 1.1 license (derivative of the MPL)? are there any other open source options that we can use (of course gpl would be our preference)?
2. Section III of the amendments specify that we can not remove the logo unless approved by Compiere Inc. if this is requested and denied we would have to display the logo as it is today, would the distribution of the enhanced sourced create a liability to us (given that our version of the software will display the logo but the product is essentially different) ?
3. Section 6.3 of the license seems to indicate that we may create a version of the license where the word Compiere is replaced, however the license says this may only be done to code is not already covered. Would this mean that we would require 2 licenses, CPL for the original covered code and the new license covering the modifications?
4. regarding section IV of the ammendments, there is third party software being distributed with Compiere and that has been licensed under terms, that we do not have access, to Compiere Inc. Can we distribute the third party software as part of the enhanced product or this create a legal liability to us?
If you can not or do not want to answer these questions, can you please point us in a direction of somebody that can help us on a pro bono basis?
Your help on addresing this request is very much appreciated.
Regards
Ramiro Vergara
Adempiere Project Council memeber"
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I will keep you posted on any developments
Ramiro