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Radeox Wiki Render Engine future not looking good

Just to let you know: Since my departure from my old employer three months ago I’ve tried to get the Radeox rights for further development through several different channels. But no final decision from any channel. As it currently looks I won’t get the rights for future developements which is quite sad. I will still try till the end of June and then see what other paths are open to me. Do people still want to use Radeox?

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About the author: Stephan Schmidt is head of development at brands4friends. He has more than 15 years of internet technology experience and 10 years experience in agile. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own.
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keke

Yes, I am planning to use Radeox as the wiki render engine in my own project. Actually I used it before and I am quite happy with it.

stephan

Thanks for the Feedback, good to hear, I’ll do my best.

What’s the license already? If you’re not allowed to work on it anymore, fork it!

stephan

Hi Guillaume, nice to see you here.

Forking is the last option, I would like to somehow stay in good terms with the people and don’t fork the project which also would confuse users. Forking will prevent some options in the future (like licening to another-yet-to-come-best-developer-license).

As the license is Apache, the relicensing topic is no problem currently, Apache is liberal enough for most people.

Jason

Isn’t Radeox at Codehaus under a BSD license?

Have used and am using Radeox. Me like it and want to use it again, if needs comes up. Great tool in the box :-)

Why would someone keep you from working on it? Looks like it has moved to codehaus now. Can we not just contribute or are contributions not accepted?

stephan

Yes there is a repo at codehaus, and the project, but the rights are still with my employer. We couldn’t agree to transfer the rights back then.

I got some positive feedback, so the situation looks better, I hope for a positive ending :-)

Burkhard Graves

I hope you make it! I’m using Radeox in a project – it’s cool!

stephan

@Burkhard: Danke

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