This answers all of my questions. I am really looking forward to the possibility of packaging and shipping commercial applications using the OpenBD Runtime. I think that many CF developers could benefit from being able to package it all together.
CFML is such an easy yet powerful development language, and it is worlds easier to rapidly build fully functional, enterprise level web applications than any other that I've yet tried over the last 10 years (being PHP, JSP, J2EE, Oracle ADF, Struts, ASP.NET). For now, though, I am planning an open source application (under the BSD licence) that leverages OpenBD, and runs against either Apache DERBY or H2. Thank you one and all for the work done on OpenBD. It is brilliant, keep it up! I, for one, appreciate it. Allen On Feb 2, 2:44 am, Alan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > Allow me to weigh into the debate here. > > Many of the questions you ask here, the answers can be found on the main > web site in the About section. But let me reiterate them here. > > + tagServlet Ltd is a UK company that owns the copyright of the > BlueDragon family. > > + NewAtlanta is a US company that licenses the BlueDragon product from > tagServlet. > > + tagServlet has no NA people on their board; NA has no tagServlet > people on their board. > > + OpenBD is the open source version of BlueDragon from tagServlet > > + aw2.0 Ltd is a Scottish Company led by Andy Wu and myself that has no > legal relationship to BlueDragon or OpenBD > > + note at the top of every file in OpenBD is the "tagServlet" header > > Regarding licensing. As the license current stands, Nitai is spot on. > I really can't add anymore than that. > > Now with that said, the Steering Committee have been debating this point > in the first week of January we all agreed that we wanted greater > freedom in what people could with the core engine. > > We still want to protect the IPR and open source freedom that the GPL > license affords us. We believe that this license best represents the > spirit of open source. Insures we have good citizens, by forcing people > to share and share alike. > > However we do see the need that the majority of people simply do not > care about modifying the source code and simply want to run it as a > blackbox. It is those people we want to cater for better with our license. > > If you wish to write a plugin, or modify the source of the OpenBD > engine, then you must adhere to the GPL rules governing that. > > So from our next official release, we'll be essentially allowing you to > bundle the binaries of OpenBD within your application without your > application having to be GPL itself. This includes commercial products > you want to dream up. > > Any libraries that we use that are themselves GPL, we'll be spinning out > as a separate downloadable OpenBD plugin, so we don't contravene their > license. There isn't many (some db drivers for example). > > As to when our next release is coming ... very soon. We are scheduled > for the April time frame, which will give us enough time to do the > changes we need and square away all the legals. Now that Andy has > done a terrific job on the implicit array/struct creation, the final big > piece of the April release is done. > > I hope this addresses your questions, and gives you the freedom to do > what you were planning on doing. > > G Allen R Souliere wrote: > > > > > Second Question: Isn't OpenBD an open source project? Should it not have > > any ties to NewAtlanta? There isn't anything in its licence that ties it > > to New Atlanta anymore, is there? > > > Third Question: What is AW2.0? :) -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
