[jdev] Use Question

[Matt Tucker]

Justin,

Wildfire is dual-licensed, which means we offer it under the GPL as well
as a commercial license. That's why we're able to offer the Wildfire
Enterprise plugin commercially. 

If you have any questions about writing commercial Wildfire plugins,
please ping us directly by email. If you decide to release as Open
Source, everything is pretty straightforward and there's quite an active
Open Source community.

Regards,
Matt 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org 
> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Stanczak Group
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:08 PM
> To: Jabber software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] Use Question
> 
> See that's where I don't completely understand. First let me 
> say I'm ok either way. I can release whatever I make under 
> GPL. You say embed, but the site says plugins. So I guess my 
> question is, if I develop a plugin to Wildfire does it have 
> to be released, or can it be commercial? At first I was 
> thinking how can Jive develop plugins and offer commercial 
> plugins, yet other developers can't? But then again it is 
> authored by Jive, so I guess that's what makes it ok? I'm not 
> very good with all that stuff so I may just be not 
> understanding. I'll give that stuff a read. My idea was to 
> develop a client and plugin that goes on the Wildfire server. 
> Not sure if I'd charge or opensource it, but I still wanted 
> to know my options.
> 
> Matt Tucker wrote:
> > Justin,
> >
> > There are no plans to move Wildfire from GPL to LGPL or 
> Apache. It's 
> > pretty important for our Open Source business model that 
> we're able to 
> > charge organizations that embed Wildfire into their commercial apps 
> > (and hence purchase a commercial license agreement from us).
> >
> > If you're interested in reading about our Open Source 
> philosophy, see:
> >
> > http://www.jivesoftware.org/about.jsp
> >
> > Also, a fairly recent and relevant blog entry from us:
> >
> > 
> http://jivesoftware.com/blog/2006/10/09/open-source-business-model-cha
> > pt
> > er-2/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org
> >> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Stanczak Group
> >> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:01 PM
> >> To: Jabber software development list
> >> Subject: Re: [jdev] Use Question
> >>
> >> I see you're a Jive person, will Jive be releasing Wildfire under 
> >> LGPL or Apache some time?
> >>
> >> Matt Tucker wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Justin,
> >>>
> >>> XMPP isn't perfect for everything of course, and you didn't
> >>>       
> >> provide a
> >>     
> >>> lot of detail about your use case. Delivering content and live 
> >>> interaction sounds like a very good fit, though. A few things you 
> >>> might be interested in checking out:
> >>>
> >>> Overview of XMPP:
> >>> http://www.jivesoftware.com/whitepapers/jive_xmpp_wp.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Pubsub Article: http://www.jivesoftware.org/articles/pubsub.jsp
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Matt
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org
> >>>> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Stanczak Group
> >>>> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:22 AM
> >>>> To: Jabber software development list
> >>>> Subject: [jdev] Use Question
> >>>>
> >>>> My only question would be what weaknesses does XMPP 
> have. I would 
> >>>> like to deliver lots of content as well as live interaction. I'm 
> >>>> looking at using Wildfire and Smack, with XStream probably. Any 
> >>>> advice would be great. I'm pretty open.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Justin Stanczak
> >>>> Stanczak Group
> >>>> 812-735-3600
> >>>>
> >>>> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that 
> good men do 
> >>>> nothing."
> >>>> Edmund Burke
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> --
> >> Justin Stanczak
> >> Stanczak Group
> >> 812-735-3600
> >>
> >> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do 
> >> nothing."
> >> Edmund Burke
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> --
> Justin Stanczak
> Stanczak Group
> 812-735-3600
> 
> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good 
> men do nothing."
> Edmund Burke
> 
>