25 Jul
2004
25 Jul
'04
1:48 a.m.
Well, the
answer depends on usage - academic/non-commercial usage is
free. If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, then
they would need a license. However, a commercial VW license isn't that
expensive for such usage
How much?
Which means that we may stop to develop smallwiki on VW then. I think that
this is the next logical consequence.
I do not understand then what is the situation for bottom feeder, it is
because you pay a license that you can offer it for free? Because
Smallwiki is exactly in the same situation as bottomFeeder.
Should I pay a license to use bottomFeeder if I'm working in a company and
using your tool during my working time?
Does it mean that if I want that my users can use a tool that I'm
developing for free that I have to pay a license? I think that you are
simply killing the use of VW for us then. There is also a really vicious side-effect for all the
tools that we are
developing in open-source. A programmer in a company using Moose (which is
open-source) would have to pay. So it seems that developing open-source
and VW are incompatible. To bad we will have to learn from that sad news.
I think that you are doing a mistake but I cannot change it so we will
have to adapt ourselves.
>>>and instead of spending some of the time I don't have ;-) on porting, I
>>>would love to be able to invest that time into development efforts directly.
>>>Is there any chance you guys could be persuaded to switch to Squeak?
>>
>>Stef
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