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Rusty

More options May 7, 8:18 am

From: Rusty <attackpoo...@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 05:18:01 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Wed, May 7 2008 8:18 am

Subject: Re: FarCry License Changes

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Hi Geoff,

I am a relatively new Far-Cry user and like many was very excited
about the upcoming release of Fortress, this was going to be the first
version of FarCry that I really wanted to sink my teeth into. This
announcement is a shock to the system to say the least as I can't
remember seeing any hint of this on any FC mailing list or preso
recently.

Anyway before I can chime in with some valuable feedback I have a few
questions:

1. Has the new Version 5 been developed entirely by Daemon staff or
does it include code and submissions from other contributors?
2. When D-day for this licencing change/ decision?
3. Under the new licensing what would happen in this situation?
A sole developer uses FarCry to create websites for his clients, he
reports bugs, submits fixes and enhancements to the FarCry team(i.e.
he contributes to the ongoing health of the FarCry project) but his
client websites usually need some degree of customisations.

Thanks, Steve Harris.

On May 7, 9:54 pm, Matthew Williams <webmas...@geodesicgrafx.com>
wrote:

> My post to the blog seems to have been lost in the ether (though I
> suspect it was an invalid captcha);

> So, when you say modify the source, I take it that extensions, plugins,
> and projects count in this instance? Also, where would the source need
> to be published? I've only got one customer on FarCry Fortress and
> they're a health care orgination. It's not yet in production, but it
> was never discussed that there would be a licensing fee to use the product.

> Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think there's anything in there that's
> going to cause any issues should I release the source, but the person
> that contracted me to do the work wasn't even fond of the idea of
> putting the code out on cvsdude so that multiple users could work on
> it. Me, I don't mind sharing code snippets as I have done so in the
> past here and in my blog.

> Matthew Williams
> Geodesic GraFXwww.geodesicgrafx.com/blog

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