CSLAGen Mystery - Open Source or ???

Vinodonly posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007

For those of you who are not aware what is cslagen, it is a generator for CSLA objects and stored procedures. Project started up on sourceforge as open source with a team of developers. Only one developer was working on it from long time.

Recently i came to know that it is available from following site :-

http://groups.google.com/group/CslaGenerator/topics

Summary now is that project was declared as open source till today. All user feedback, advises, ideas were being taken, labelling the product as open source and product was getting polished gradually but it was being distributed without the source code.

What i understand that for open source projects all have the right to see the code and contribute their ideas and distributing open source projects without source code is illegal.

But this is what it is and on my multiple multiple request, result is that source code is not available and cannot be provided, Why ??

Please have a look at detailed message exchange on these links :-

http://groups.google.com/group/CslaGenerator/browse_thread/thread/181a499949ed6193

http://groups.google.com/group/CslaGenerator/browse_thread/thread/abd5bcf7c2fbd314/455b7d8ea3d3b72f#455b7d8ea3d3b72f

 

 

ajj3085 replied on Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Labeling something open source conveys no rights to the source code.  The license is what decides what is or isn't legal. 

The owner of the code may do whatever they want with their own software, even change licensing for future versions.   It appears to me that Andres owns that particular project, although I didn't find anything definitive.  So if he doesn't want to make the inprogress code available, he is under no obligation to.

I can understand where he's coming from; he'd be publishing unfinished code, and then people would complain its not working right..

Vinodonly replied on Wednesday, February 21, 2007

hi ajj,

have u read all the messages exchange in both the links

is ur opinion same after reading this link also, this was posted on May 6, 2006

http://groups.google.com/group/CslaGenerator/browse_thread/thread/c95382fff1a765fa/dcc27c60b9841691?lnk=gst&q=source&rnum=3#dcc27c60b9841691

 

 

 

ajj3085 replied on Wednesday, February 21, 2007

It is; assuming Andres is the owner, he can do what he likes.  If he wants to wait until he finishes some changes he's making before putting the source back on SF and allowing others to commit changes, that's his prerogative.

mr_lasseter replied on Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Let it rest..