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Will this project stay open source or go commercial licencing like all other software
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Will this project stay open source or go commercial licencing like all other software
I'm an open source junkie myself, but I'm not the one with the final call on this. Currently there are no plans to make it into a binary distribution. The code you see today is still owned by cPanel, it's not released under a GPL or anything, it's just not compiled and stuff. If we find out that some company releases a game control panel that is suspiciously like cPGS and we can prove they took code from it, they'll probably see a lawsuit.
I think the question you really were asking is if it will stay free or if there are plans to charge for it later on ? If so, then there are no plans to start charging for it. This could change some day and I'd be powerless to stop it, but such is the way of a software development company, it's a business that tries to make money. I think it's better for cPanel to keep it free since it entices people to buy a cPanel license to run their game hosting company. The powers that be may decide somewhere down the line that they want to start charging a small fee for it, or charge a fee for every 5 remote servers after the first 10 or something like that.
For the forseable future, it'll be free.
<3 open source!!!Originally Posted by darren
As for charging a fee, I don't see the harm in charging a small addon fee (saying this also means I don't expect it to be the same price as other panels as its purely a perl module addon for cPanel).
But if cPanel charge a reasonable price in the future, and you still work on the product I am willing to pay.
make that 2. I will definetly stay.
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