Free Magellan!

[takemehomegrandma]

Hi, don't know incase you've seen following interview with the creators of DirectoryOpus Magellan : http://system-log.com/?p=1363

What do you think of a open source initiative (like a bounty) to make it open so this wonderful piece of software can carry on (on AROS and elsewhere) ? =)

Excellent idea. The Poseidon for AROS bounty on power2people worked just fine; it almost generated $4000.

From your link: "We have discussed the concept of an Open Source but there are some copyright and trademark issues. We would consider allowing this if a company or group purchased a licence as discussed above."

Well, power2people is registered as a non-profit organisation. Maybe this will suffice and meet the demands?

http://www.power2people.org/

[takemehomegrandma]

@develin

@all

I've got a reply how to continue with the open source process now.
And they need a registered group (or organisation) and the one I suggested to Greg is power2people (like TMHGM wrote above), which has successfully released sources like Poseidon : http://www.power2people.org/projects/overview/

This is the anwer from Greg Perry :

Hi Stefan,
Yes P2P would be fine I think. We'd just have to licence the trademarks and copyrights to some registered organization.

__ Regards, Dr Greg Perry

This is an important software for many of us and I think we can work together in a bounty, can't we ? =)

I totally agree, and I really applaud your effort and initiative on this!




@Andre.Siegel

@ Gulliver

Power2People contacted GPSoft on February 17. There appear to be several interested parties.

Exactly what does that mean? (Sorry, but English isn't my native language and it was a short statement)

Does it mean that many parties (like GPSoft, power2people, as well as, I don't know, some AROS, OS4, MorphOS representatives, etc/whatever) is interested in making Dopus open source through power2people and thinks that this is a good idea,

or

that some *other* organization/entities  has expressed interest in buying the sources *for their own* purpose? (meaning: not necessarily for open sourcing purposes?)