SecuritySuite (Teams)

[salesagility]

Does anyone have the GPL zip files for this module.

The folk behind it have closed the code in SugarForge and downloads now point to an ecommerce site where only paid for versions are available.

It was good code and it would be a shame to see it disappear.

If you have the zips, can you email them to me and I'll reinstate them on the forge as a GPL version of this project.

[eggsurplus]

Feel free to update what's out there on SugarForge by merging the code manually. There will be a 5.5 version on SugarForge when that goes GA.

I've switched to releasing the major/minor releases (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.5, etc) on SugarForge for anyone to use and update as they please. For patch versions (5.1.0a, 5.2.0f, etc) I've made them available only on the store front. This has been going on for almost a year now. It seems to be a good trade-off for those that just want free stuff and for those that want a quality project that will be around for quite some time. I've seen many great projects come and go due to burn out and abuse which in the end hurts the users of the module by leaving them hanging with no solution for current Sugar versions. My goal in charging for the patch versions is to guarantee users of this module that it'll be here for the long haul.

My hope is that you and everyone else continues to support that end goal of being here for quite some time by continuing to support this module. Mass redistribution is by all means legal but by doing so you will kill the project.

If you'd like to try out a specific patch version please by all means email me and I'll send you the full version. I'm currently working on a demo site as well for those that just want to see what it can do without having to install it.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jason

[salesagility]

Jason

I have huge sympathy for your argument and position ... we're all out here trying to make a living from Open Source and I REALLY APPRECIATE the effort that has gone into this great contribution.

If you had put a link in to say ... "Buy support for this brilliant module", I would have smiled and said "good on you guys ... that's the model".

I do owe you an apology though .... I had not appreciated that you still had links to the freely available code ... I thought you had closed it off and that's what drove my comments.

I hope you will accept my apology and that my intentions were honest and well intended. I have no wish to see good engineering and damned hard work unrewarded.

greg

[eggsurplus]

Greg,

Fair enough. I appreciate the kind words. I've thought about and played around with the support idea but it just didn't seem to work in practice. I'll keep looking for better ideas as well.

-Jason