RE: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!
- Posted by Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com> Sep 20, 2006
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Jason Gade wrote: > > Not quoting Derek Newhall's excellent post... > > While I have sympathies with the GPL for the reasons cited by Ray Smith, the > points brought up by Derek are the reasons that I suggested that RDS release > dual license GPL and commercial versions of the language. > Well, I would be totally against this. And Rob has already said he would do the exact opposite. Quoting his original message: > I have finally decided to make Euphoria completely > free of charge, and completely open source. > Other advantages: > - since it's free it will gain more users > - 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 All very good reasons too. Jeremy