Re: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!
Rob,
This news is unexpected. I am glad that you made the decision. Thank you.
How will the various attendant decisions be made. I know that you are
already asking for input on the license to follow. How about things like
where will the code repository and so forth be? Now you provide for the
hosting of such things. Will you continue to do so? Will some things be
hosted by you and some at other sites such as SourceForge? The EUforum?
. . .?
Will there be some sort of oversite committee? Will you provide overall
oversite? I am sure that you have already been a bit overwhelmed by
considering such things. I certainly do not expect a complete proposal
now. But, do you have a time table in mind? Some things already thought
out? Some things to be decided, perhaps with user input?
I am not pressuring you. I just have a bunch of questions. I am sure, as
you alluded to in your message, that your decision was not easy. I do
want you to know that I (and I think most if not all users) THANK YOU
for your decision.
I look forward to working with you and your child (EUPHORIA) and all
users in the new and upcoming open source community environment.
Terry
Robert Craig wrote:
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> posted by: Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
>
> 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.
>
> This will cost me money, but I can't see the current
> system going on much longer, where a whole programming
> language community is dependent on one guy to add features,
> fix bugs etc. The amount of code that I have to maintain
> has been steadily growing over the years, and I have to
> admit that my progress has been slowing.
>
> 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 not going anywhere, but I expect that I will do
> somewhat less low-level coding and testing, and more coordinating
> and integrating of code that others develop. I will keep
> the Web site going as usual, and keep a usable version
> of Euphoria, that has my "blessing", on it at all times.
> (I'll allow other non-blessed versions as well.)
> Hopefully we can move away from the 1.5 years between
> releases model, to something where releases occur on
> a much shorter time interval. Certainly, it will be easier
> to do short-interval releases when there isn't money involved.
>
> Other advantages:
>
> - Euphoria will be ported to more platforms
>
> - since it's free it will gain more users
>
> - since lots of people will have the source, and will be
> familiar with it, there will be no long-term
> risk from RDS "disappearing"
>
> - features will be added by smart people that will go
> beyond what RDS was likely to ever do
>
> - I won't have to waste time on marketing, advertising,
> processing registrations, sending new download instructions
> to people who lost them etc.
>
> - I (we) won't have to maintain both free and registered versions
> of things
>
> - people who may have wanted to contribute to Euphoria,
> but did not like the idea of giving their time free
> to RDS, will now be less inhibited
>
> 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!)
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
>
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