http://community.actian.com/forum/blogs/jk/ en Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:16:48 GMT vBulletin 60 http://community.actian.com/forum/ingres4/misc/rss.jpg http://community.actian.com/forum/blogs/jk/ http://community.actian.com/forum/blogs/jk/68-why-isnt-openroad-completely-open-source-like-ingres-database.html Tue, 11 May 2010 23:10:07 GMT In 2008 Ingres took OpenROAD Workbench open source as the Empire project, released under the GPLv2 license. This Integrated Development Environment... In 2008 Ingres took OpenROAD Workbench open source as the Empire project, released under the GPLv2 license. This Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is written in the 4GL language just like the programs you develop using the equivalent OpenROAD Workbench IDE.

You may do the following with Empire Workbench:

· If there are quirks with OpenROAD Workbench that you would like to change, you can freely make the changes in Empire and use these modifications for your own development.
· If you want to write an entirely different development environment for OpenROAD, consider Empire as one template of an actual working system.
· If you want to distribute an application written in Empire, you may freely do so. You would need to include instructions that point users to our website where they can download a trial version of OpenROAD runtime to check out your application. If they want to continue using the application after the trial is finished, they would need to engage with Ingres or a reseller to purchase a subscription to OpenROAD runtime to continue using the application legally.

It is possible that at some future point OpenROAD runtime will become open source, but at present there are no current or future plans to open source OpenROAD runtime. We do, however, allow complete access to the OpenROAD runtime source code under a simple non-disclosure that we ask members to sign before viewing the code. After examining the code, you are encouraged to make comments and suggestions as a community member.

One of the main benefits of a community is that it helps some members overcome various pitfalls while improving the technology for everyone to use, including newcomers brave enough to try it out. We have learned the importance of this through scars earned over 25 years of development. If you join the openroad-developer list you can silently watch or openly particpate in the ongoing development of the product. This is the first step to becoming a committer to the OpenROAD runtime in a process we call open engineering, which happens at OpenROAD sprints. So far, we have held five sprint events around the world with the next one to start on June 5 through June 7, 2010, in Slough, UK, just prior to the spring UKIUA conference being held on June 8, 2010. Hope to see you there!

Joe Kronk
Director, Engineering
Ingres Corporation ]]> jk 768 http://community.actian.com/forum/blogs/jk/68-why-isnt-openroad-completely-open-source-like-ingres-database.html