[dev] Re: developing commercial horde applications

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Markos Giannopoulos <markg at apogee.gr>:

> Quoting Chuck:
>
>> ... and you have to give them the code under the existing license - you
>> can't tell them not to distribute it.
>
> Does that go for the code of my app or of horde? i mean, if i do an app from
> scratch that uses horde as the framework (without modifying it) does it
> need to
> be lgpl as well?

No, you can choose any license for your product if it only uses LGPL code.

>> Second, I'm wondering why you're concerned about this.  CRM isn't the
>> kind of thing that might have business logic or other trade secrets, so
>> why not release the code to the public?  We've had a couple discussions,
>
> well, i might actually just do that, especially if i base it on turba,
> since the
> idea is that it will be turba with an extra table to hold companies(e.g.
> contacts belonging to companies), and some connections to nag and mnemo

There's no need for such an extra table, you can do this with 
groups/lists in Turba already. Also see 
http://dev.horde.org/~jan/crm/contactview.html for UI ideas how to link 
those applications to a CRM.

Jan.

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