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Jerome Despatis
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Saturday 26 March 2011 1:51:46 am
Hello, I'm wondering about business models possible with eZ, here is an example: Imagine you code a super extension, so powerful you would want to sell it... Possible of course to sell the extension, but code would be clear, and no protection on it Of course a bunch of tools like zend encoder and so on can encrypt .php files, but then, I guess peZ scan process, etc.. wouldn't work anymore -> is there possibility to encrypt in some way an extension that could of course still work with eZ ? thanks
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Robin Muilwijk
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Saturday 26 March 2011 2:17:57 am
Hi Jerome, I think that if your extension is Open Source and based on the GPL license, you might run into problems when you encrypt your code. Basically, if your extension is based on an Open Source license, you will need to make the code available. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html Any other partner on this specific topic, business models, and code encryption? I have no answer on the technical part of your question, if it is possible or not. Regards Robin
Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation.
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Jerome Despatis
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Saturday 26 March 2011 3:21:20 am
Thanks for your answer After some discussions on IRC, I think I've understood what is possible as business models and what is not, here are my conclusions, could you confirm them ? * A developer can sell an extension (under gpl, because it's a derived work from eZ project), but he cannot sell the extension and ask for royalties, it's a one shot selling * after the selling however, the customer can ask some upgrade or support service and pay for that. Or he can do nothing: it means no support, no upgrade (no bugfix), and no fee However question: buying an eZ licence is needed in order to sell extensions or not ?
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Sebastiaan van der Vliet
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Saturday 26 March 2011 7:10:12 am
Hi Jerome, Apparently there is/has been an eZ XTEND programme: http://ez.no/fr/Events-news/News/eZ-Introduced-eZ-XTEND: is intended to replace and improve the program previously known as “eZ Publish Partner Certified Extensions.” I don't know what the current status of the programme is.
Certified eZ publish developer with over 9 years of eZ publish experience. Available for challenging eZ publish projects as a technical consultant, project manager, trouble shooter or strategic advisor.
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Bertrand Dunogier
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Sunday 27 March 2011 11:06:07 am
The eZ Market program should still be launched soonish, very shortly after the release. The original page hasn't been updated, but this is what Christoph Zanheisen, our VP Product manager, has explained at length at the winter conference in Nice.
Bertrand Dunogier
eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon
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Nicolas Pastorino
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Monday 28 March 2011 1:51:24 am
From slide 10 on, there : http://share.ez.no/blogs/ez/ez-winter-conference-2011-wrap-up-slides-pictures/christof-zahneissen-product-vision-and-roadmap Good overview of what eZ Market shall be. Cheers,
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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
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Robin Muilwijk
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Tuesday 29 March 2011 3:43:21 am
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Thanks for your answer After some discussions on IRC, I think I've understood what is possible as business models and what is not, here are my conclusions, could you confirm them ? * A developer can sell an extension (under gpl, because it's a derived work from eZ project), but he cannot sell the extension and ask for royalties, it's a one shot selling * after the selling however, the customer can ask some upgrade or support service and pay for that. Or he can do nothing: it means no support, no upgrade (no bugfix), and no fee However question: buying an eZ licence is needed in order to sell extensions or not ?
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Hi Jerome, That's a correct summary. As far as I know you do not need an eZ License of any type to sell your own extension. I'll ask someone from eZ to check on this and leave a note here. Regards Robin
Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation.
LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/robinmuilwijk // Twitter: http://twitter.com/i_robin // Skype: robin.muilwijk
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Nicolas Pastorino
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Tuesday 29 March 2011 3:50:55 am
Hi Jérôme, Robin, Buying an eZ commercial license is required if one wants to close-source her extension. Doing so is not allowed when the extension has a mandatory dependency on a GPL software, which is the case for eZ Publish. But with an eZ Commercial license, the extension can be closed and run on a commercial-licensed eZ Publish version. Generally, and back to your "however question", GPL does not impose any condition on financial compensations. This means you can both sell it in the first place, and ask for compensation when providing services. GPL mostly controls distribution, as a strong-copyleft license.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
Member of the Community Project Board
eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity
t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye
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