- From: Joe Feise <jfeise@feise.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:32:47 -0800
- To: "de Carvalho Klose, Daniel" <klose@fti-en.com>
- CC: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
I am not a lawyer, but... WebDAV and DeltaV are just protocol specifications. A commercial vendor can of course charge for his particular _implementation_ of the protocols. To stay within your example, FTP is a protocol specification. Vendors can (and do) charge for their particular FTP implementation. HTH, -Joe de Carvalho Klose, Daniel wrote on 03/17/06 03:24: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I am currently concerning about one issue referring to the licence model > of one commercial vendor of a certain project management software and > would like to kindly ask you if it is right what this vendor is doing: > > The vendor is promoting a webbased projectmanagement tool that has the > webdav standard included (file repository for project data etc.). The > weird thing of his licence model is, that the customer has to pay for > the "versioning feature" within the webdav standard. It seems totally > odd for me, since WEBDAV is an open standard that has already the > versioning feature included. For me it would be the same as paying for > the "send" feature in the ftp protocol, whereas "receiving" is free! > > I appreciate any statement regarding to my issue. > > Kindest regards. > > __________________________________ > Dipl.- Ing. MSc Daniel de Carvalho Klose > System Administration > > FTI Engineering Network GmbH > Witzlebenplatz 4 > D-14057 Berlin > phone: +49 (0) 30 / 30 83 36 - 20 > fax: +49 (0) 30 / 30 83 36 - 60 > > mailto:klose@fti-en.com > http://www.ftigroup.net > > >
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