[BlueOnyx:04094] Re: BlueOnyx CMS crazy idea

[Jeffrey Pellin]

Hi Michael,

The IP for this is owned by a company (PX2 Ltd) which I used to own, but
now only have 25% of. Before I go too far with this I am waiting for
commitment from the current owner. The reason that I put this on the list
was to see if there was any interest before I took it too far.

My view is that it should be fully and irrevocably open source using one of
the Licences that are available, and I would only be interested in doing it
if the product was fully open source. PX2 Ltd make money from Webalistic by
selling Webalistic hosted sites and by Partner agreements. They have never
sold server licences for this, so it has never been a commercial product in
that sense. Personally I think they would be the losers if they don't go
ahead with this..

I will keep you up to date - it would be great for it to be fully
integrated in the GUI, something that I hadn't thought about.

All the best.

Jeffrey

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:57:07 +0100, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
>> We run a custom CMS system here called Webalistic for lightweight
>> websites.
>>
>>
>> I am thinking that we could port this to work in BlueOnxy and release it
>> as
>> open source. It's quite a well features system and very popular with
>> non-technical users, and we currently offer it as a SAAS only. What I'm
>> thinking of is an open source version for webmasters to use on their BO
>> servers.
>>
>> So what do you think - I have a meeting on Monday with the powers and
>> some
>> feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Sure, that would be great. If you can send me the source code of the CMS
> I'll 
> hack a GUI integration for it together and will release it to the YUM 
> repository.
> 
> The only thing that has to be made clear upfront are the terms of the 
> licensing for your CMS. The license should allow for distribution (and
> usage) 
> in forms that don't limit us from distributing it. GPL, Artistic license,
> BSD 
> license or something like that. We had a case back in the BlueQuartz time

> where "donated" sources were asked to be removed again because the
donating
> 
> party did a U-turn on us and wanted to keep it commercial.