On May 9, 10:23 am, Ezra Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Open BlueDragon > I am sure that the release of the Open BlueDragon CFML engine is at > least partially responsible for Daemon's consideration of this change, > as Open BD is being released under this same license, and the > possibility of a ready-to-run GPL'd server stack for FarCry > applications is extremely compelling. The present CPL license is not > compatible, so this bundling would not be possible if the status quo > is maintained.
OpenBD has not precipitated the change in thinking -- although you are 100% right to point out that we would be in a much better position to leverage OpenBD as a community if we had a compatible license, ie. GPL. A dual license model is something we've been contemplating for a while. Certainly even without a change from CPL to GPL Daemon will be releasing commercial licenses for clients that would like them. Things have really come to a head with the change in licensing of the extJS toolset to GPL. Without an exception to their license we would need to discontinue using the toolkit or also change to GPL. This has triggered a lot of soul searching internally, and discussion about the GPL in general. Do we dump extJS? Do we move to GPL? If we move to GPL, what commercial options are needed? Are we running the right license model at all? And so on. We now believe moving to GPL is the right thing to do for Daemon and the community. But we are well aware that the move may be viewed as controversial. Consequently we want to make sure that anyone who wants a say can have a say before we make any final decisions. The community has already raised a number of valid concerns surrounding potential issues with templates and plugins -- we'll be coming back shortly with possible solutions to these problems. In any event, we are minimising the impact of the license change to the Fortress code base and future versions, and maintaining the 4.0 maintenance branch. We hope this will minimise any impact (real or imagined) to organisations working with FarCry today. All the best, -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
