That is unfortunate - is there any way to get the original author to change his mind (I'm guessing they reached out in a huff - which is understandable if this came up unexpectedly)?
It seems unfortunate effort to rewrite something, and from an Omnibase perspective, I can't imagine there is sustainable money to be made from future sales of the product (in a world of so many databases more widely available), however offering services on top (which I'm sure the original author is in the best place to do) would seem like a better aim instead of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Of course he is the one that can ultimately make the call, but worth double checking I would say. Tim On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, at 2:18 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: > To all Omnibase and Monibase users. > > It turned out that neither of those are open source. The author of the > database contacted me clarifying the situation that he has the copyright and > never released something open source. This means that I will remove the > Omnibase repositories in few weeks from > > https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/MoniBase > > and > > https://github.com/pharo-nosql/OmniBase > > I'm very sorry about that but someone just took the code 9 years before, > copied it on github and put illegally an MIT license to the repository. We > only want free software in our repositories and hence the above will go away. > > As we see it essential to have a good OO database in pharo we will see how > much effort it will be build a small and simple OO database that can replace > Omnibase. > > regards, > > Norbert
