Whoa! Despite Bryan's attempt to blur the difference between OpenACS 4 and aD's ACS 4.6 (see
<a href="/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002OT&topic_id=OpenACS&topic=">this thread</a>) the reality is that they're two different products. I have no idea why he's trying to muddy the waters, but the fact that he's done so changes nothing.
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Our code base is GPL-based and written in Tcl. Their code's written in Java and though the datamodels share much in common the two, in practice, don't coexist as their operating environments are incompatible. Their ACS 5 system will be considerably different at the datamodel level as well as, of course, being written as a Java app.
<p>So they can do what they want in regard to licensing. We resisted forking with them for many months back when they continued ACS Tcl development. When they dropped it, we forked their code base and rewrote it to support both Oracle and Postgres. Now there are undeniable legal reasons to make sure that we stay forked and don't become "polluted" by code they release under the new license, but in practice, that's not really a problem.
