Anyone insterested in hiring a programmer to bridge SMF and Joomla 1.5?

[j3cubcapt]

I'm in too!

I have about $75 to offer up!

Will

[capeinfo]

I am also very interested!

[afonic]

As I said above, correct me if I am wrong but creating something like a "club" everyone can join for $50 or whatever to get the component is considered redistribution.

[青山 素子]

My guess is that it would depend on the charter of the club. Just as a company is (usually) treated as an individual, you might be able to make a legal entity that could be counted as a single individual. There would likely need to be a special charter and other things, and a lawyer would be the best to consult on how to do this.

[Orstio]

As I said above, correct me if I am wrong but creating something like a "club" everyone can join for $50 or whatever to get the component is considered redistribution.

As M-C pointed out, it would depend on the legal definition of the club.

As far as the current template clubs go, you are correct.  Having people sign up for a period of time, and then leave could bring up some distribution issues.

The club can be considered a single legal entity, and the developer would be doing work in the form of labour, not distribution.  That is why I said that nobody in the club would be able to share the software outside the club.

You are correct to say that people would not be able to join and quit whenever they wanted.  That would create quite a legal issue when trying to work around the terms of distribution.

Getting a lawyer to draft the definition of the club would probably be the most prudent way to go.

[afonic]

Ostrio, could you be interested in continuing development in a club-based environment then?

I guess if you start something like a template club and keep applications open for a limited time and given the price would be fair, many of users would want to join.

[capeinfo]

Has there been any progress on this?  I can ask my lawyer who is an expert in IT law to look at it.

[Benson]

Maybe you should wait for the first release of JFusion.

[dukeofgaming]

I think we should have a list [sticky] of the possible/existing integrations/workarounds for joomla<->smf... this might save lots of pain.

I still support the co-op developing idea, if Orstio already did the work, we all "buy it" and don't redistribute, this might be just something good for SMF [maybe something like koudanashi does {http://forum.bbpixel.com/index.php?act=home&view=product}]... there's a lot of people who wouldnt mind paying for it, I'm among them.

[Directy]

the first apha of Jfusion has been released yesterday....

[serge06]

There is also a Joomla 1.5  bridge available at:
http://demo.gmitc.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=8

Has anyone tried it?

[Kindred]

that bridge is not technically legal.... as we have already discussed, in great detail, ANY bridge between Joomla (GPL) and SMF (OS, but not GPL) violates the terms of the Joomla GPL...

Plus...   that bridge won't extract from the zip file.