Re: [Social-discuss] Re: Federation

[Melvin Carvalho]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Humaneasy
Consulting<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm not an english native speaker so if something sounded harsh just
> disregard. Is not intended and just due to lack of better english knowledge
> :D ;)
>
> More inline below.
>
> 2009/8/25 Matt Lee <address@hidden>
>
>> Humaneasy Consulting wrote:
>>
>> > In principle there is nothing against a new tool licensed under F/LOSS :)
>> > But how many less freedom and/or liberty will you have on using Drupal?
>> > If there is a technical issue and/or legal framework issue that I'm not
>> > aware of I would like to know. Truly!
>>
>> Well, Drupal is not AGPL.
>
>
> Right. This is a *philosophical*** question.
>
> Social is AGPL.
>
>
> Ok! But you can always release your independent modules with any
> GPL-Compatible license (http://smsh.me/7j7s), right?
> CiviCRM uses AGPL too (http://smsh.me/7j7t) to interface with both Drupal
> and Joomla, two CMS released under GNU GPLv2 or later.
>
> Most of your proposals already exist in Drupal as seperated modules -- even
> the possibility of using Smarty as the template engine (http://smsh.me/7j7u)
> -- and I do think you could concentrate on what your project could offer
> that is not yet covered and, at the same time, benefit from the huge Drupal
> community and its real testing on big impact sites like SonyBMG's MyPlay.com
> or the MTV.co.uk.

I agree that drupal is an amazing framework with 100's (1000s?) of man
years of quality effort already there, but there's nothing wrong with
making your own build.  Mark Zuckerberg famously said, most of
Facebook was built in about 2 weeks.

As it happens, I spoke to Dries Buyteart (drupal creator) at the weekend.

He was quite interested in distributed social networks, particularly
in using semantics and FOAF in drupal 7, and was talking about
building a module.

So if things are done the right way, and they probably will be, that
means all similar networks such as drupal, will hopefully be able to
interoperate.

>
> Three samples of this "distribution" concept:
>
>   1. http://www.prosepoint.org/
>   2. http://openatrium.com/
>   3. http://www.ideatorrent.org/
>
> I understand that you feel more confortable in pushing something faster
> using your own LibreFM-based framework and not having to have the burden of
> step a new learning curve to be savvy in another distinct framework... and
> this is, for me, a *technical* question.
>
> 1,
> Lopo
>