OpenSynergy Group super-project request

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Sebastien can you provide some more information about the projects you wish to host under the OpenSynergy project group? Also, it would help if you could finalize your licensing decisions. Only projects that are licensed with approved open source licenses qualify to host their projects on Launchpad for free.

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Brad - thanks for the interest in my case. Here come a more detailed description of the OpenSynergy project (with a mini-historical part) and the projects I would like to host under the 'OpenSynergy Group'. The description is however, quite general and a full documentation will be available at www.opensynergy.pl as soon as I fill find some time to build the website.

So, let's start...
I own a small software company in Poland. In october '07 a law firm asked me to build a software that would help it to manage its clients, curt cases, documents database and the employees work time. I've decided to write it with Python and wxPython as a GUI library. The software was designed to be build of the two main layers: the core and the extension modules (clients, cases, documents, etc.) . The idea was motivated by Drupal: I wanted to build a desktop application framework (the core) and the extension modules that would complement each other in a synergy process. That's how I've chosen the name for the project.

The core (that I will call OpenSynergy) is build at the top of MVC scheme and provides API for databases connections (now it handles PostgreSQL with psycopg2 and SQLite with sqlite3), (program) users authentication and access, different visual interface styles, shared common GUI widgets, and a framework for building extension components.

The extension components may implement a user interfaces or just a API that can be used by other components. The extensions use OpenSynergy framework that is being developed to allow to create custom applications (e.g. CRMs) easily.

The 'OpenSynergy Group' will group the OpenSynergy core and extension components. Today - there's (about) ten components hosted here (os.contacts, os.cases, os.documents, ...).

The software I've created is now used and (mainly) tested by a law firm I've mentioned. I believe it will be ready for the stable release by the end of the year. Currently - I'm working on it with the two colleagues, we've started using Bazaar and found Launchpad a very friendly and a well featured place to host the project (and possibly develop a OpenSynergy community as well).

Now the licensing issue.
The OpenSynergy (the core) from the very beginning was intended to be the Open Source software (that's what the project name should suggest). However - I have (still !) not decided whether to use a (L)GPL licensing variant or to create a custom Open Source license. I have decided to release the OpenSynergy extension components I've already written under the Open Source license as well - however, I need to carefully choose the OpenSynergy licensing style due to it's possible influence to the components (derived work) license. And that's the main problem. All in all - the project hosted here in Launchpad will surely be the Open Source software - I understand that the license decision is crucial and it should be ready within the next two weeks (so help me God!).

If You have ANY further questions - maybe the description is too general or I should write more about the OpenSynergy relative components hosted here - I will be glad to answer.

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Sorry, I missed this one while out of office.

Have you already registered some of the sub-projects, and if so, can you provide me with some URLs? I'll be happy to create the project group and tie them in for you.

Christian, I've already registered some projects that would be in relation to the 'OpenSynergy Group'. The url's are:

https://edge.launchpad.net/os.time
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.finance
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.documents
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.doc
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.correspondence
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.contacts
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.cases
https://edge.launchpad.net/os.marks
https://edge.launchpad.net/opensynergy

That will be great to see them all tied to the one super project.
I've also made decision on the licenses. All the project hosted here at LaunchPad will be GPL3 licensed. I will mark all important changes to the projects descriptions in this week.

https://edge.launchpad.net/opensynergy is an actual project. This is the core piece of my software (a kind of framework) used by other opensynergy related project.

If I understand the super-project right, it's used to link together all the related projects. If so - the opensynergy-group is all I needed.

I've just linked the project listed in my previous post to the opensynergy-group and everything works fine.

Thanks a lot Christian! I consider my question beeing solved.
Best Regards!

Thanks Christian Reis, that solved my question.

Sure thing. If you need any further help, just ask -- I'm back in office so I'm better with handling requests!