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What open source license is ShopIgniter being distributed under?
What open source license is ShopIgniter going to be distributed under? Since the website bills this as Open Source...
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Inappropriate?We refer to our source code as open, but not free. We have developed our own license that allows great flexibility to our developers to extend and modify the code, but they can't redistribute it, fork it, or provide another form of SaaS using it. We will be releasing this license soon for the community to review and we look forward to the feedback provided to help sculpt it to make the majority of our developers and clients happy and confident of its viability in the market.
The model behind our approach came from our love and use of Expression Engine, but because there isn't such a thing as a non-commercial eCommerce site we won't have a free, core version. We also do not want to prohibit the use of ShopIgniter working within other proprietary or open systems built on CodeIgniter, and our license will reflect that.
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Inappropriate?"their[sic] isn't such a thing as a non-commercial eCommerce site"
So, all those non-profit organizations that sell goods and services online for fund-raising purposes don't exist? Clever wording, but not really true.
Also, if you're going to call something open source, that implies free distribution, per the Open Source Initiative's definition of "Open Source".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sou...
I know it probably garners a lot more traffic from search engines, but it's kind of disingenuous to call it Open Source when the accepted standard definition of "Open Source" includes the following:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
Now, your business model may be more closed, that's fine. The particulars of your business model are somewhat irrelevant. If you want to follow Open Source standards, then you have to accept the accepted definition of what Open Source actually IS. If you want to eschew those standards, that's fine, but it could be interpreted as kind of skeezy and misleading.
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