What if aliens come and destroy the entire planet?
Unless you have credible proof of oxwall shutting down, please leave the "what if" questions inside a box. Don't start with that paranoia once again (like every year).
Patricia, think of it this way, what if (this is just hypothetical) oxwall shuts down the free site, the store, and specifically tells people that they are no longer authorized to use the free script and in doing so you are violating their license. THAT IS JUST A WHAT IF ok it has not happened.
They cannot tell you to stop using this script, it is open source. You can save a copy of this open source version of the software forever and nobody can ever force you to pay for it, you can even share it with everybody for free and they can use it as well. That's why open source licenses are so good.
Plugins? If you have the license of your plugins or make your own plugins, you still can use them legally. (You and I know how, I just don't want to add details here). So, no worries.
The link to this forum has also been removed from https://www.oxwall.com/ and if you go to "Pricing" OxWall appears as a paid product.
Nor is access to the OxWall demo.
I guess they won't be interested in the plugins we develop.
They can do what ever the please with the software, they can sell it, they can give it for free, they can make a package with software + support, etc. Everything that the CPAL license allows them to do with it. Even you can sell copies of this open source software if you find your own customers, and your customers can resell copies of the copy that you sold them. (I'm talking about Oxwall Software only, not the paid plugins bought in the store). What they can't do is re-license the software under the same current name and version and force you to pay for it.
They want to monetize the website and I'm ok with that, this change in their main page was made a long time ago and I think nobody did notice before and I don't know why. Fact is that my sales this month are equal than same month of 2019, so, no worries in that too.
I'm not going to let OxWall die
Me either. There is plenty of ways of keep this project alive and making it better everyday, it just needs time and money to do it or volunteers who give their free time into this project.
Why cannot we talk about it in here?
I can think of 2 reasons right away:
1- "Advertising" your own branch or software in here is not permitted because you are offering for free extra features that they may charge for.
2- This may open security issues and concerns for the Oxwall users who install the new branch. (This is extremely important)
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