John Yokley asked me to post this for him; he doesn't regularly monitor this list but I do. I'll pass on any comments or questions to John or to others here when needed. Thanks. *********** Paul - Yes you did misunderstand our intensions. We will contribute the source code we develop to the community and if the proper protocol is to do that for our customers directly then that is what we will do. Based on your note it seems that this process requires significant expertise and would be onerous to our customer. We would gladly perform this task for them *********** Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of paul POULAIN Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:38 AM Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] PTFS Support for the Koha Community Yokley, John a écrit :
** We also have a software development group well suited to support Koha development. I have been advised that there are community concerns over code submission. While we have not yet completed a Koha development project, we fully intend to provide the source code to our customers for submission to the community.
Hello John, did I miunderstand : you plan to provide the source code to your customers and they will have to take care of submitting it to the community ? If it's your choice, then you'll be GPL compliant, as the GPL just requires that (ie: provide the source code & give permission to redistribute) If it's what you plan to do, your customers will go to a dead-end, as their specific code won't be in official Koha (I can't think even a second a librarian will submit git patches ! Maybe US librarians are different from French librarians, but not that much !!!). Thus, for future release, they'll have to do the job again -or have to pay you[1] to do it- Not very interesting for the users ! At BibLibre, it's something we have done only once in 6 years, and the library that wanted that regrets his decision (as the move from 2.2 to 3.0 will be very expensive, and probably delayed to 2010 !) Also note that, due to Koha technical architecture, you can't deploy Koha without providing the source code (thanks Perl language) ! [1] you or someone else. But frankly, this will be a technical pain for the company doing it if it was not the company doing the 1st version. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha