Is anybody posting any group projects to the 4D Wiki? I was thinking of posting what I've done to fix Assimilator (which I've been sending around to people who have asked for it) as The Borg. However, it has some things that should be done to it, too, so I was thinking of putting it out as a group project.
The problem with this is a) I don't think 4D made the source public domain, even though it's publicly available b) If they didn't, then they would have to release it under some sort of shared license, e.g. GPL/GLPL, Creative Commons to protect the effort
> Is anybody posting any group projects to the 4D Wiki? I was thinking > of posting what I've done to fix Assimilator (which I've been sending > around to people who have asked for it) as The Borg. However, it has > some things that should be done to it, too, so I was thinking of > putting it out as a group project.
> The problem with this is > a) I don't think 4D made the source public domain, even though it's > publicly available > b) If they didn't, then they would have to release it under some sort > of shared license, e.g. GPL/GLPL, Creative Commons to protect the > effort
The Assimilator was part of 4D Technote 04-38. I don't believe that can be considered 'abandonware' yet, despite the fact that 4D has notified me that nobody there is going to maintain it.
I personally just think it's good form to make sure a) we get their blessing b) that we don't release something that's intended for 4D Partners before it's supposed to be generally available and c) that we don't fork something that they're going to continue to tweak periodically, e.g. the barcode library, which has been revisited at least once since it was first put out.
I've rewritten much of the Assimilator, and I could finish rewriting it, call it my own and throw it out there, but I'm not prepared to just flip off 4D without at least discussing it with them first.
We would need to set up a repository for the libraries that we create, since we're not just releasing code but entire project/library files because there are forms, tables, etc. in them.
There's also the matter of the plugins (4D ODBC Pro) that came with the technote. That has been updated at least once since then. I would think they would not want us to put that out with the library/structure.
Continuing with the previous thought, I've been in contact with a couple of other people about other projects that they and I have been involved in. This idea is going to get legs, maybe even this weekend, but I want to do it right.
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