Re: phpDomain (OpenSRS + Billing) for $49.95!

From: Tim Jung (tjung@igateway.net)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 13:04:36 EDT


Originally my email was just to inform the author that there were a few
problems with the web site interface/usage. Things that weren't clear or
appeared to be broken or missing.

Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway
tjung@igateway.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Viebrock" <colin@easydns.com>
To: "Tim Jung" <tjung@igateway.net>
Cc: <vladislav@davidzon.com>; <bizops-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: phpDomain (OpenSRS + Billing) for $49.95!

> Tim Jung wrote:
> > On your web page (http://www.phpdomain.net/site/features.shtml) you
talk
> > about your product being "Open source product" when in fact not all
your
> > products are Open Source. You might want to clarify that better, that
the
> > "Open source product" feature is only available in the Basic/Free
version.
>
> I'm going to assume this email of yours is related to other thread about
> GPL issues. If so, and if the Pro Version isn't LGPL, I have an issue
> here as well, since I know that the Basic/Free version is based quite
> heavily on my opensource PHP client freely available at
> http://opensrs-php.sf.net. Previous conversations I've had with the
> developers confirmed this fact.
>
> Further, they are bundling several classes that are part of PEAR
> (http://pear.php.net), authored by myself and others, which are released
> under the PHP License. I'm not sure what the details are on selling
> code that includes those classes.
>
> I would also point out that the links to the Terms & Conditions on the
> following page are non-existant:
>
> https://secure.thinkhost.com/phpdomain.org/members/order.php
>
> > Also you have posted there that everyone is free to download the free
> > version and try it out, yet there is no download link anywhere on the
site
> > to download it to try it.
>
> There is a download link right in the middle of the front page of their
> site. You have to register to get to the download (which kinda sucks,
> IMHO), but it's there.
>
> - Colin



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