OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Sep 19, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Big News!
> 
> I woke up this morning, the sun was shining, the birds
> were singing, and ...
> 
> After considering various ways to make a big impact
> on the future of Euphoria for v3.0, including various schemes
> to partially open up the source while still retaining some
> income, I have finally decided to make Euphoria completely
> free of charge, and completely open source.

Wow!  My first impulse was to look at the calendar to make sure
we didn't just finish the month of March.

> I'd like to make everything Public Domain, but if
> anyone feels that the GNU license is a better way to go,
> speak up.

I'm personally a big fan of the LGPL license.  That way, any improvements
or changed to the code needs to be distributed, but it doesn't place
restrictions on using the code (i.e., you can link to it with 
non-GPL code).

> What I plan to do is put aside the feature list for 3.0
> for now (I've only completed a few more small items lately
> while wrestling with this open source decision),
> freeze the code as it is today on my disk, and put out a totally 
> free release. I'll call it 3.0 alpha. The download packages 
> (DOS/Windows and Linux/FreeBSD) will contain the registered 
> translator and binder, and the full source code 
> (including C backend code). It may take me a few weeks to 
> get all this organized. I'll have to make a lot of changes 
> to the Web site as well, since we won't be selling anything 
> anymore. (We'll still be getting a buck or two a day from Google ads!)

Can't wait!  Thanks, Robert

Matt Lewis