From: <da...@ra...> - 2011-08-25 08:57:34
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Fabio - I've been following this conversation but have not had much chance to participate. I will stand up though to say that nothing beyond a few bug fixes have gone into the commercial release so far without the authors getting paid for their work or for their copyright assignments. Given the history of this project, the idea that we (Range Networks and Kestrel) are getting work for free from anyone is absurd. We require a CLA for contributions to the official release for legal reasons, and we are willing to pay reasonable fees to obtain code under that CLA. -- David Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <li...@in...> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:22:50 To: Alexander Chemeris<ale...@gm...> Cc: <ope...@li...> Subject: Re: [Openbts-discuss] OpenBTS-UHD aka Open-source OpenBTS mainline. On 8/25/11 9:54 AM, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > > Exactly. And this doesn't require us to make a separate website and > split forces. Just update the wiki (and other sources like Wikipedia) > and you're done. > Can we get an official, shared commitment also from "OpenBTS.org" website, documenting about OpenBTS-UHD and linking to them? If "OpenBTS" "project" would clearly endorse OpenBTS-UHD then it's ok, they will clearly state that there is OpenBTS-Commercial and OpenBTS-UHD and that OpenSource should got to OpenBTS-UHD. Until now there will be a unfair advantage for a commercial iniative that leverage the effort/support from an opensource community. And that's what i don't like, that's what confuse people and what let people to make wrong assumption. I totally understand that we should "avoid a fork", but in order to do it we need to have the official project page (OpenBTS.org) having a clear position on the OpenSource de-facto fork that's OpenBTS-UHD. -naif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Openbts-discuss mailing list Ope...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbts-discuss |