I really never liked the fact that they used the term "Open Source".
If you look back at the updates from phil, it was not going to be open
source. It was still paid software, where if you agreed to the
restrictions, you could download the source and modify it yourself and
then submit back to witango. So it still costs money, you still pay
for it, but you can modify the code, and if they like it, they own the
modification and then sell it to others. So its not Open Source. Its a
way for them to try to have unpaid developers.
From Phil
New Licensing
-------------
Once the beta testing has been completed and version 6 goes into
release, the source code for both the server and studio will be open
sourced under its own license. Witango will continue to be a
commercial product and a license will need to be purchased. There will
be 3 editions of the Server:
The Lite edition - no change to current license conditions
The Developer edition - no change to current license conditions.
The Professional edition - single machine license, with no limitation
on number of processes or CPUs.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
rgar...@bighead.net - rgar...@eventpix.com
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Michael Heth wrote:
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Stefan Gonick wrote:
My guess is that they stopped working on replacing the licensed
code so that the situation hasn't changed much since the last
message.
So they could figure out what the cost per license is for the
licensed code, and charge that amount plus 10% forward it on to the
licensor and be done. Not open source but last official release
never to be updated. If it was reasonable and ran on our current
systems it would be worth paying some money for. I keep a last
version Titanium Powerbook around just to run old OS9 software that
doesn't like classic.
The above would cure all the issues except for support which they
could charge for or someone on this list could charge for.
Thanks,
M./
Michael Heth
tangopo...@serversmiths.com
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