Open Source
Open Source Observatory and Repository meets QualiPSo project
Open Source Observatory and Repository project (OSOR), an European Commission IDABC initiative meets some QualiPSo members. The aim of this meeting was to try to find synergies between two European Commission projects: OSOR that will (i) setup an open source repository for the European Public Administrations, (ii) provide news, guidance, links, contacts concerning Free Libre [...]
J2EE is dying, competition doesn’t means innovation everytime but, digging its own tomb
Competition means Innovation but Java is dying because of the amount of frameworks that are available. I wonder if someone is smart enough to understand and follow the amount of MVC frameworks, Design patterns or Object Relational Mapping tools that are available? We can try to calculate the combinations of solutions (I don’t try to [...]
Alfresco, an Open Source license!
A few days ago, I’ve expressed my concern about the attribution clause (not longer available on their website) added to the MPL 1.1 in the Alfresco ECM. Today, Alfresco released the Alfresco 2.0 Community Release of their ECM under the GPL 2. Their branding is now so huge that the attribution clause became obsolete, they [...]
European Union Public Licence v.1.0 is available
The European Union Public Licence 1.0 (EUPL v.1.0) was approved by the European Commission on 9 January 2007. This page contains the official versions in English, French and German together with a preamble explaining the purpose of this Open Source Software (OSS) Licence. A study on the compatibility mechanism foreseen in the EUPL v.1.0, has [...]
Alfresco, not really an open source license
Alfresco, the Entreprise Content Management uses an Alfresco open source licence that has not been accepted yet by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org) due to one attribution clause added in the Mozilla Public Licence v1.1. Before deploying Alfresco be sure that the User Interface guidelines of your customer match the attribution clause constraint! “….II. Alfresco [...]
