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Modulegarden Open source licence what a joke
CloudxtnyHost
Member, Host Rep
I was considering buying a module garden open source licence for a provisioning module and I was shocked by the number of restrictions they place on it. I can understand then saying you can't openly share the code but it also say :
- you can only use it on one site
- you can't change the code without their permission
What is the point of an open source licence if all I can do is look at the wonderful code they have written but I can't bend it for my own needs?
Anyone actually bought a licence from them?
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Curious, do you have a link to their "open-source license"? From the sounds of it, that isn't open-source at all, and it violates quite a few points of the Open-Source Definition.
I don't want to draw premature conclusions, but so far it sounds like a typical case of "wrapping themselves in the open-source banner for marketing purposes without giving people the associated freedoms"...
Lol also the price are huge for the open source versions
From what I recall you can modify the code fine, they don't promise they can offer support for the module after you have made your changes
Do not buy anything from them.
If you have any chance to avoid these clowns - do that. Poland coders are on the same level as India "PHP ultra guru's". Look at hostbill, PL shit also. Pure vomit.
I second what has just been said.
Unfriendly UI, and things rarely work... unless you are happy to be paying yearly fees for broken code.
I should clarify we have the full source proxmox cloud module. We have made heavy modifications to it
So what billing/support system would you consider for a highly secure environment? Blesta? WHMCS? Kayako?
Kayako is not a billing platform, rather bloated and out of time support solution. Wanna serious software? Ubersmith.com for example.
Ubersmith is pricey as hell and from what I have heard, it's not that updated often.
It's UI is ugly as hell.
In comparison to what? As far as I can tell, WHMCS grabbed a blind guy with no hands off the street and screamed "WEB 2.0!" in his face until he created an interface . . .
@ModulesGarden Any insights?
pfft, only took them a FEW years to make it responsive
Still better than Ubersmith!
UGLY!
Confirmed: ModuleGarden support is useless, module quality is poor and they are only focused on getting more money no matter what.
Leave your racist remarks at home, will you ?
lol, like WHMCS
I'm using mg for proxmox, its fine module but not best. hope they can improve it
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As long you paid for the full source code, you should do whatever you would like with the source code, as you paid to have that, whatever you do after is your business
With a name like LTniger I think he was being deliberately racist, and I'm sure he will continue if he lasts long enough... @jarland that name, bro... Not cool.
ModulesGarden, just no. I code better and you would need to see my code to appreciate my angle on this...
Tabs or spaces?
Francisco
Mood dependent.
That's not how copyright or licensing works, though. You're not paying for the source code, you're paying for the license - and that license can introduce restrictions.
Tabs, obviously!
Niger is a country...
Maybe OpenSource means you don't need to pay yearly fees specially If you don't want to purchase upgrade/update while Encrypted software forced us to renew every year.
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But nice joke.
It seems you dont know the difference between open source and FOSS
There's a line separating the stupid and people who make honest mistakes. He's crossed the line.
That could be his name. Question where your head is at, if you see something racist in that name.
I spent too much money and learned a valuable lesson with modulesgarden. You wanna hear the absolutely nuts part? These two modules don't work together:
http://www.modulesgarden.com/products/whmcs/dns_manager/features
http://www.modulesgarden.com/products/whmcs/cpanel_extended/features
Despite working with cPanel, the DNS Manager wouldn't import any zones. So if someone adds a DNS entry in cPanel, I would have to go back and add it into the DNS Manager for it to show up there.
Needless to say I found that to be a bit much to say that it works with cPanel, more like it "makes use of" cPanel if you happen to enjoy manually entering one-by-one every domain on your cPanel server OR your cPanel server exists purely for DNS.
Asked for a refund, refused, so I filed a chargeback, lost, learned a lesson. If you've ever seen how I think of chargebacks, you know that's quite out of character for me. They're friendly, but they'll never have my business or recommendation.
You should be nominated for the joke of the year award, you'll win easily
Yes you are.
AutoBoot going on GitHub one day?