Re: [Queue-developers] Fwd: Queue Question

[W. G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

My own personal take on this is that anything that makes Open Source software 
more useful (without creating legal headaches for the software) is a good thing. 
I'm in the Eric Raymond camp that believes commercial software will never 
totally go away for various economic reasons.

Some influential members of the Open Source community automatically oppose 
anything that "would encourage the use of commercial software" on strong 
ideological grounds. They don't even want the names of commercial software 
products mention in program documentation (asside from the names of operating 
systems). So, I'm not supposed to mention the existance of "flexlm" in program 
documentation.

So, I suppose if your modifications merely grudingly tolerate commercial 
software rather than encourage its proliferation, you're OK with everyone. :)

Your modication might be aimed more at controlling the total number of copies 
that can run simultaneously in a cluster for organization global resource 
allocation purposes. (This has even been a requested feature; it has been 
suggested that there would be a central MySQL server that would keep track of 
statistics and resource usage on running jobs.) So, perhaps you might want to 
add hooks for a MySQL (or Perl DBI) based GNU "license manager" that would check 
with the central database and would limit global resource usage. This would make 
it more palatiable to some in the GNU community.

Note that write access to the CVS repository is available for developers.

Quoting Lee Bradshaw <le...@se...>:

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:06:04PM -0400, W. G. Krebs wrote:
> > It would be nice to know what sort of functionality you are adding to GNU
> Queue. 
> > This helps reduce duplication of effort if someone else is making similar 
> > changes. OpenSource works best if developers contribute their modifications
> to 
> > the general project. You can submit your modifications as patches to the
> Patch 
> > archive on SourceForge (or just post them here if they are small.)
> 
> Thanks for answering Monica's questions. She's trying to add support
> for tools that require software licenses (such as those managed by the
> flexlm license manager). We've talked about sending a description of
> her plans to you or the mailing list, but she hasn't had time to write
> anything yet. We'd like to make sure her modifications (or something
> similar) are acceptable to the queue community so that they will be
> included in future versions of the software.
> 
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