If it didn't fit your needs (by whatever means available), why would you "buy" into it? I don't see how the license changes that.
However, if it met your needs without having to hack into it, what do you gain by not being able to hack into it? I don't lose sleep at night because I can't change it... to be honest, the thought never crossed my mind. If it didn't meet my needs (or couldn't be made to), it wouldn't have mattered if it was free, I wouldn't be using it.
Truth be told, I've only infrequently not had my needs taken care of before me. Most of the time, they involved pike. I guess that makes my needs less than cutting edge (apparently with the exception of pike).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a shill for the Fisheye people. I'm just trying to suggest a pragmatic approach to looking at the options. We're talking about what is essentially an ancillary piece of software, and I don't see the harm in setting up a demo for people to look at and play with. Perhaps that means my software licensing morals are looser than everyone else's here (I happily use closed software when it makes sense and works for me), but that's certainly something I can live with. To me, using Fisheye, even in a transitional way, to get to an SVN repository seemed like a no- brainer. If that's not the case, that's fine, and this will be the last you hear out of me about it.
Bill
On Jul 9, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
Why buy in to a tool you're not at liberty to hack to fit your needs?
I can see how I'd do it if I didn't value my needs much, or if I had a very good feeling about being able to have somebody else fix my needs for me, say, as was the case between Linux and BitKeeper, but failing both, which I'd say Pike does, I don't see why the license isn't a show stopper.
Hm. Except if I'd firmly believe that I wouldn't ever have any needs that aren't already fixed by someone else by the time I get them. I have never ever had that happen to me in online resources, though.