Hey guys!

Jahia never claims to be open source. Jahia is released under a collaborative source license. This is clear on the web site. Jahia even opened a new web site to better define and explain what is the collaborative source licensing model (www.collaborativesource.org). There is no leverage on the open source movement or whatever other marketing buzz...

Several "open source" companies (e.g. MySQL AB) are trying now to enforce a strong quid pro quo philosophy (http://www.edwardbear.org/serendipity/archives/1193_My_Beef_with_MySQLs_License.html). And I personally think this trend will continue in the future. If you read carefully the collaborative source definition, you will see that there is not so much difference with a classical OSI license. The only big difference is that the editor can charge users (but has to accept payment in cash or in kind) for certain types of use. Otherwise speaking if you do not collaborate in the community, you're taxed! Seems reasonnable to me. Nothing to do with MS shared source initative or other developer source initatives. Please do not mix bananas and apples.

Stephane

1. S: What's the 150K you're speaking about. Jahia is worth 5K per server (not per CPU) with a max of 30K per server. Converted in kind this represents only a few days of development for a free license. Just develop for example a new portlet, contribute it to the community and you will get your license. But of course if you only want to freely reuse what others did without contributing anything back to the project, choose a classical OSI license... But I am not sure this is the community approach the open source model tried to promote for years: no contributions = no OSI projects! Jahia just enforce this paradigm.