And I was naively thinking that in open source world we could all get along .... all together now...Shamele wrote:
Unfortunately, that's just the nature of doing business. Why do you think large companies have a team of lawyers? And even with a team of lawyers, companies have lost copyright cases. Nothing anyone does can ensure that they won't get sued and no one knows for sure what the outcome of the case will be.
kum baya ma lawd....
In all seriousness. The 3pd may or may not stop doing business as usual. By this I mean they will probably keep selling commercial proprietary licensing for their products... what is going to happen? The Joomla! statement says that they don't intend to sue anyone... So what is to stop them... And if they do sue someone? well the again... what country? With what precedent? I honestly don't know if any other cases involving extensions of open source projects have taken place because I have not looked.... What were their outcomes? Actually that might help us understand if the Core statement has merit or is just a positioning so that they don't get the project taken away ala mambo....
M.