Announcement: Sun Joins Liferay Open Source CommunityLiferay, Inc., recently announced that Sun Microsystems will formally be joining the Liferay open source community and will continue to contribute to the development of Liferay Portal. Sun's participation in Liferay's community will result in enhanced development of enterprise Web 2.0 features and optimized performance for Liferay Portal in combination with Sun's family of products. Read full press release...
Q: Why are Sun and Liferay Partnering?A: Collaboration between open source projects is always good for the open source community because it unites instead of divides those interested in a technology – in this case, portal and web technology. Everyone associated with the Liferay and OpenPortal communities benefits from this collaboration because it not only generates more ideas and innovation, but also reinforces quality and reduces risk for stakeholders given the sheer volume of people watching and managing changes to the platform.
Q: What about Liferay's support for other application servers, databases, and operating systems?A: Liferay will continue to fully support all platforms it supported before this announcement.
Q: If I am an OpenPortal contributor, do I automatically become a Liferay contributor?A: No, you must follow the Liferay community process to become a contributor on the Liferay project.
Q: If I am a Liferay contributor, do I automatically become an OpenPortal contributor?A: No, you must apply through the OpenPortal community process to become a contributor on the OpenPortal project.
Q: What is the “common platform” that was mentioned in the press release?A: For each “Sun” release, Sun plans to take snapshots of Liferay Portal 5 (and later) source code and remove “Liferay” specific elements (themes, skins, apps, etc.). Liferay Portal 5 utilizes several OpenPortal projects (e.g. portlet container 2.0 (JSR286), Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), etc). This subset of Liferay Portal plus the OpenPortal components are what we refer to as the “common platform”. Sun will utilize that common codebase as the core building block for developing and testing a Sun branded release.
Q: Will Liferay continue to provide support and services for me?A: There will be no change in Liferay's services, and we will continue to offer our full suite of professional support, developer assistance, consulting and training services. Q: How do I get the source code for the “common platform”? How is it licensed?A: Liferay Portal source code is licensed under MIT and will be hosted and managed by Liferay. The source code for Sun's OpenPortal components are licensed under CDDL and will be hosted and managed by the OpenPortal community.
Q: In what role will Sun be joining the Liferay Project? What about Liferay's role in the OpenPortal community?A: Sun has committer status and a seat on the Liferay Governance Board. Liferay will be a committer on the OpenPortal projects that Liferay Portal is dependent on e.g. portlet container, WSRP, etc.
Q: Who will own the intellectual property that results from this partnership?A: Sun contributions to Liferay Portal will be jointly owned by Liferay and Sun. Liferay contributions to Sun OpenPortal projects will also be jointly owned. Both Parties will retain all rights to pre-existing work.
Q: Is Sun planning to acquire Liferay?A: No, there are no plans for an acquisition.
Q: Is Sun forking Liferay?A: Absolutely not. This community partnership was created specifically to reduce the likelihood of forking.
Contacting LiferayPlease contact pr@liferay.com with any questions. |
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