If I read the previous comments correctly the potential move to GPL is driven from two main factors, extJS licence and lack of community involvement.
>From what I read, the extJS GPL licence may well be the overall deciding factor. Regarding the community involvement and I am as guilty as most but not all, in not creating and making plug-ins/modifications available. I do find that most of my modifications are to extend standard Farcry content types, use them as a base for new ones or to be such a unique requirement for a particular site that I have thought it is worth making them available for others. I am working on a different version of the site tree admin, but this is a part time task as it is not a firm client requirement yet. But when complete I will make this available. I am still confused by what is and is not covered by the proposed GPL licence. Is it the content of plugins, webskin, packages (including type and rules etc.). Some modifications are based on other third party software that could not be made public. Also on a server with multiple Farcry sites running, some V3 and some V4, I would probably have to hold back from upgrading to V5 unless I can get any existing clients using V4 to agree to the licence change to GPL as these existing sites cannot be run on the same server as a V5 site unless I have to go for the webroot installation method. I am not against the licence change, as there is still the choice of GPL or Commercial licences, but until we know more about potential costs of commercial developer licences it is difficult to know what impact the commercial licence would have. Is there an option for Daemon to offer a Commercial Developer Licence in exchange for that developers community contribution? Just thought that this might encourage the developers who are more likely to fall into the distribution of code issue are also more likely to have more code to offer. This way a smaller selected set of modules are released to the community instead of releasing everything whether it is useful to the community or not. Chris. On May 7, 10:52 am, modius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > There has been much debate here at Daemon regarding a change in > licensing for FarCry. As a consequence I've put together a discussion > document in an effort to explain what we are thinking and get some > feedback from the community before we do anything. > > "The FarCry 5.0 release has been delayed. We're contemplating a > significant licensing change and as a consequence we want to make the > decision prior to making the release. Once we have resolved whether or > not the license change is right for our community, we'll either > release 5.0 under the current license, Common Public License 1.0 > (CPL), or under the newly proposed dual-licensing scheme." > > http://blog.daemon.com.au/go/blog-post/farcry-license-changes > > Please feel free to post here, comment on the blog or contact me > directly with any words of support, condemnation or enquiry! > > Best regards, > > -- geoffhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
