[Koha] Supporting the Open Source Concept

[Bob Birchall @ Calyx]

John Yokley wrote:
> I want to inform the Koha community that PTFS is committed to abide by not
only the law, > but the spirit of the open source movement. PTFS will submit
all the Koha code we develop 

This is interesting but does not advance matters very far.  To date, Liblime
has an exemplary record in releasing code back to the project and should be
encouraged to continue that.  They do not deserve to be beaten up.  PTFS'
flagship product remains closed source.

Of greater interest to me is the apparent attitude of Liblime customers
(WALDO ?) who are reported to be applying "considerable pressure by
sponsored developments to embargoing the code".  So they want to take all
the open source code contributed so far and not add back their developments?
Perhaps they can tell us whether that is true and if so explain the
rationale?

Bob Birchall
Calyx