Posted by Niklas Heidloff | October 8, 2009
IBM has planned to contribute on Monday
10/12/09 the following eight templates to OpenNTF under the Apache license
2 (ALv2):
- Mail
- Personal Address Book
- Teamroom
- Domino Blog
- Notebook
- Widget Catalog
- Eclipse Update Site
- Doc Library
These templates are the same versions
as in Notes/Domino 8.5.1 with the only differences that they will be available
under ALv2 and signed with another id.
The main purpose is to allow the Notes/Domino
application development community to extend these templates with value
added solutions or to reuse parts of these templates in custom applications.
The Apache license defines the legal foundation to allow this.
In addition to this one time contribution
IBM is evaluating whether future versions of these templates can be contributed
as well to allow the community to update their future solutions based on
these templates with future template versions.
The eight templates are the English
versions of the templates. Once the internationalized templates will be
available, the Notes/Domino community can request open source versions
of other languages.
For these eight templates IBM has no
concrete plans to take extensions by the community back into the product.
Contributions to these eight OpenNTF projects will not be allowed. Instead
developers can create their own projects where they extend the templates.
However with the new OpenNTF Alliance IP (intellectual property) model
based on ALv2, IBM, as well as any other company, has the right to take
community contributions back to blend with future releases.
The releases can be downloaded from
OpenNTF but defects tracking and support questions on the unchanged templates
will not be handled via the OpenNTF project infrastructure. Instead consumers
are asked to follow the usual IBM processes (e.g. PMR, IBM support, etc.).
Also the Apache license doesn't change IBM's positioning on handling of
undocumented APIs (e.g. see Technote
1101582).
These templates are planned to be made
available as open source in addition to the discussion
template which has already been
communicated earlier. In difference to the eight templates above however
the goal is to extend the discussion template via the OpenNTF community.
All statements regarding IBM's plans,
directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.
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