Bounty for Directory Opus Magellan II?

[OlafS3]

I have the answer of GPSoft. They only want to release the source AFTER payment. I do not know if there is then still interest and I should create the bounty. What do you think? I do not think GPSoft wants to cheat us but nevertheless I do not want to take the risk for the whole sum (but of course for my donation). What do you think?

[Cosmos Amiga]

Yes, create the bounty !

[Cammy]

You can do it!

[OlafS3]

final text for bounty:

Description
Open the source of Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) 68k

Source-code purchase of GPSoftware's Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) for
free use under APL. The Name "Directory Opus Magellan", a trademark of
GPSoftware, can be used on Amiga (Amiga here is 68k, Aros, MorphOS, AmigaOS)
without further permission. Use of the source or trademarks any other OS is
strictly prohibited except where a separate licence has been negotiated.
Bounty will be paid, then the source will be released and integrated "as is" into the AROS SVN.
 
Bounty goal: 5200$ (plus Paypal)

[ck007]

Hi Olaf,

PayPal fees can be quite hefty when you're talking that amount of money.

How about Kickstarter?  Would that work?


Cheers,
ck

final text for bounty:

Description
Open the source of Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) 68k

Source-code purchase of GPSoftware's Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) for
free use under APL. The Name "Directory Opus Magellan", a trademark of
GPSoftware, can be used on Amiga (Amiga here is 68k, Aros, MorphOS, AmigaOS)
without further permission. Use of the source or trademarks any other OS is
strictly prohibited except where a separate licence has been negotiated.
Bounty will be paid, then the source will be released and integrated "as is" into the AROS SVN.
 
Bounty goal: 5200$ (plus Paypal)

[Tripitaka]

This bounty is getting a good response on the Natami forums. For all Amigoid platforms it's not a bad price either IMHO.

[LoadWB]

Would this not qualify as a "personal" transaction, thus not subject to PayPal fees?

[Andre.Siegel]

Source-code purchase of GPSoftware's Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) for free use under APL. The Name "Directory Opus Magellan", a trademark of GPSoftware, can be used on Amiga (Amiga here is 68k, Aros, MorphOS, AmigaOS) without further permission. Use of the source or trademarks any other OS is strictly prohibited except where a separate licence has been negotiated.

The AROS Public License is an open license that includes no limitations with regard to target platforms. Either a piece of software is released under the APL license or it is not. If somebody adds provisions to the APL at will, the result will be a new license that may be partially compliant, but will certainly not be the same license.

In order words, the bounty description is contradictory.

Bounty will be paid, then the source will be released and integrated "as is" into the AROS SVN.

Unless the software is released under the original AROS Public License, I would guess that it is unlikely that the source code will be accepted into the AROS SVN.

[Andre.Siegel]

Would this not qualify as a "personal" transaction, thus not subject to PayPal fees?

Absolutely not. There will always be fees.

[OlafS3]

I have this ok by email and forworded the correspondence to power2people. I have not a signed written contract because I do trust GPSoft and who will do the lawsuit in australia even if there is one.

"

Ok.


__
Regards, Dr Greg Perry
GPSoftware, PO Box 570, Ashgrove, Qld Australia 4060 Ph/fax +617 33661402
Email: greg@gpsoft.com.au web: http://www.gpsoft.com.au


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Schönweiß [mailto:olaf.schoenweiss@innovatronic.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 7:06 PM
> To: Dr Greg Perry
> Subject: Re: Natami and GPFax (Last)
>
> I have merged both emails
>
> Last version that I will send tomorrow to power2people:
>
> Open the source of Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) 68k
>
> Source-code purchase of GPSoftware's Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82)
> for free use under APL. The Name "Directory Opus Magellan", a trademark
> of GPSoftware, can be used on Amiga (real hardware or emulated, Amiga
> here is 68k, Aros (all flavors including hosted), MorphOS, AmigaOS)
> without further permission. Use of the source is limited by the APL
> Licences agreement and use of trademarks on other OS's is strictly
> prohibited except where a separate licence has been negotiated.
> Bounty will be paid, then the source will be released and available on
> public SVN page, so developers from all the camps can works on it
>
>
> Bounty goal: 5200$ (plus Paypal)
>
> please short "ok". the only change was that I put the text from this
> email in the text.
>
"

[OlafS3]

It is online now:
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/64

[Cosmos Amiga]

My donation added to the bounty...

[kamelito]

+20

[Cosmos Amiga]

Bump


Please, donate !!

=> http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/64

[cgutjahr]

The AROS Public License is an open license that includes no limitations with regard to target platforms. Either a piece of software is released under the APL license or it is not. If somebody adds provisions to the APL at will, the result will be a new license that may be partially compliant, but will certainly not be the same license.

In order words, the bounty description is contradictory.

No it's not, you're mixing up copyright and trademarks. GPSoft is promising two licenses: One for the code, which will be released under the APL, and one for using the trademark, which is only valid for 68k builds. You can still do with the code whatever you want (as long as you respect the APL), but if you're compiling it for anything but 68k you can't call it Opus Magellan.

Think of the official Firefox vs. OS4 Timberwolf vs. Debian Iceweasel.

[develin]

Will do monthly donations (when possible) on this bounty I think.
Last month $20, yesterday $60...

Please help us free the sources of this great program!