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What would it take to remove the calendar?
Illori:
how about we try the feature requests board ;) i think this would be a better place to talk about this.
N. N.:
[off topic now]
--- Quote from: 青山 素子 on November 15, 2011, 03:49:02 PM ---
--- Quote ---http://wedge.org/pub/faq/6358/faq-is-it-a-friendly-fork/
the license we chose is set to prevent SMF from re-using our implementations
http://wedge.org/license/
1(d): Any Distribution of this Package, whether as a Modified Package or not, requires express written consent from Wedgeward.
1(e): Your name is not Jonathan Valentin (aka "vbgamer45") or Alex Kühne (aka "Akyhne"), and you don't work with any company associated with them, including but not limited to Samson Software of Bloomingdale, Illinois.
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--- Quote ---http://opensource.org/docs/osd
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
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License term 1(d) violates OSD #1, term 1(e) violates #5. If we take the OSD as the general guide for what it means to be "open source", then Wedge is not open source
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This is correct. Not only from OSD criteria (strictly), this kind of license (in particular the discriminatory part) will never be considered [Free and] Open Source under more than one possible definitions of FOSS.
[/off topic]
Please, feel free to share ideas on calendar. Ideas are always valuable, and thank you for taking the time to bring them up. There are also enhancements on the current calendar feature that have been brought up (and we'll take them all into account). I will be back on this.
live627:
--- Quote from: AngelinaBelle on November 15, 2011, 01:58:31 PM --- Interested readers can count for themselves: http://wedge.org/pub/feats/6108/new-revs/msg270398/?topicseen#new
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And even then, there were about four follow-up commits.
--- Quote ---Hmm.. Now I have to wonder what interesting things the other forks are up to...
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Most forks have already died off. Apparently, only Wedge and EoS are still alive.
AngelinaBelle:
So true! I think a fork is more work than most people realize.
Bloc:
Hey, i'm still alive.. :) But then I don't have a demo up or code to show yet, so maybe i'll shut up now lol.. :P Still going strong though, but have to admit while mine will be proper BSD in the end, I reeeally enjoy being the sole dev on it. ;D
Anyways...
Removing the calendar I think is a mistake, for Wedge(or SMF in the future) part. Events, in the broadest sense , is very useful in a forum enviroment IMO, its just that the calendar of SMF was always considered more of a "birthday thingie"..but turn it onto "events manager" and you have more use for it. It should have more options, like attaching files(well, the topic already does that, but more could be used with strictly "event" attachments), attendance features and history, and past events tied to profile for example. And of course, if enough playground is given, one can also let users dable with easy todo-lists, or private calendars of whatever they like.
It seems such a underdeveloped feature..and such were doomed to be cut out at one point or other(by SMF or forks) perhaps. I think its better to expand it though. And in ViennaBBS it will. (if not in the absolute first release, surely in the following)
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