[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] open source status

[Jason Etheridge]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Jesse Ephraim
<jephraim at roanoketexas.com> wrote:
> I heard a rumor today that further updates to official Evergreen
> releases will only be made available to libraries who do business with
> Equinox, making it less than a fully open source application.  I have
> never heard that before, and assume that the rumor is incorrect (perhaps
> a confusion of Evergreen/Equinox and Koha/LibLime), but wanted to
> double-check it here.
>
> Thanks!

Hi Jesse,

There's no truth to that, and we've already promised as much:
http://blog.esilibrary.com/2009/09/16/the-equinox-promise/

Besides, "official" is whatever the community decides is "official".
DIG is coming up with "official" documentation, and they're all
volunteers.  The Georgia Public Library Service does own the Evergreen
trademark, but I believe the plan there is transfer that to an
Evergreen foundation once one is formed.

Thanks for bringing it up!  Can't abide FUD.

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Jason Etheridge
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 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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