Re: [Openinteract-dev] interested in OpenInteract2?

[Perrin H. <pe...@el...>]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 11:50, Andrew Hurst wrote:
> The main deal I think my boss has with OI is the licensing.  He's all for 
> Open Source, but the problem is giving the changes back.  We probably won't 
> be distributing it, so that wouldn't be an issue.  But if I make good 
> changes / add features I'm going to do what I can do get them back in the 
> main tree even though the license doesn't call for it.  To do that, 
> requires a code audit though from a few tech guys, for obvious reasons 
> (national security, etc).  Yes even for simple web apps.  Its a rather 
> arduous process.

Giving back code is nice, but there are other ways to contribute to an
open source project if your company is uptight about sending patches. 
Things like documentation fixes, good bug reports, and even helping
answer questions on the mailing list are valuable and appreciated.

- Perrin